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CONTRIBUTIONS  TOWARDS  A 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 

GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 


TO  ESTABLISH  THE  NUMBER  AND  ORDER 
OF  ISSUE  OF  THE 

MOTTE  EDITIONS 

OF 
1726  and  1727 


THEIR  RELATIVE  ACCURACY  AND  THE  SOURCE 
OF  THE  CHANGES  MADE  IN  THE 

FAULKNER  EDITION 

of  1735 

WITH  A  LIST  OF  EDITIONS  IN  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION 
AND  TWENTY-FIVE  PLATES 


BY 

LUCIUS  L.  HUBBARD 


CHICAGO 
WALTER  M.  HILL 

1922 


Two  hundred  copies  printed 


Copyright  1922 
By   L.   L.   Hubbard 


THE   TORCH    PRESS 

CEDAR    RAPIOS 

IOWA 


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This  booklet  is 

affectionately  dedicate 

to  a 

long-suffering 

Wife 

in  memory  of  many 

silent  evenings 

vouchsafed  by  her 

to  its 

completion 


CONTENTS 

Page 

List  of   Plates ix 

The  Writer  to  the  Reader xi 

Table  I.  References xiv 

THE  MOTTE  EDITIONS 

Sequence  and  Composition 15 

Third  Edition,  1726,  Continuously  Paged       .       .  17 
Table    II.     Collation    of    the    Motte    Octavo 

Editions 18 

General  Grounds  for  Priority  of  Issue     ...  21 

Portraits 25 

First  Edition 27 

Second  Edition,  Volume  I 29 

Volume  II,  Part  III       .       .       .  31 

Part  IV       .      .      .  33 

Fourth  Octavo  Edition,  1727 36 

Table  III.     Headpieces  to  Contents  and  Chap- 
ter   I    41 

The  24  Mo.  Motte  Edition,  1727      ....  42 

FORD  AND  FAULKNER 

Text  Differences 44 

The  Ford  Corrections 45 


viii  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

THE  FAULKNER  TEXT 

Source  of  Changes  eound  in  it 52 

Hawkesworth's    Criticisms    of    the    Faulkner 

Text 54 

List  III.     Changes  Original  With  Faulkner      .  63 

Swift's  Complaints 73 

Obsolete,  or  Faulty  English 77 

List  IV.     Examples 79 

Maps 93 

APPENDIX 

List  I.   Typographical  Errors  —  from  the 

"Paper" 96 

List  II.    Restitutions  —  from    the    "Book"      .  108 

Bibliography 127 

Plates at   End   of   Volume 


Plate 

I 

Plate 

II 

Plate 

III 

Plate 

IV 

Plate 

V 

Plate 

VI 

Plate 

VII 

Plate 

VIII 

Plate 

IX 

Plate 

X 

Plate 

Plate 

XI 

Plate 

XII 

LIST  OF  PLATES 

AT  END  OF  VOLUME 

Portrait  op  Gulliver,  First  State. 
First  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to 
Vol.  I.    (Used  also  for  Second  Edition). 

First  Edition.  Separate  Title  Page  to 
Part  I.  (Used  also  for  Second  Edition). 

First  Edition.  Separate  Title  Page  to 
Part  II.  (Used  also  for  Second  Edition). 

First  Edition.  General  Title  Page  to 
Vol.  II,  Parts  III  and  IV. 

First  Edition.     Separate  Title  Page  to 

Part  IV. 
Third  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to 

Vol.  I. 

Third  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to 

Vol.  II.     (Used  also  for  Second  Edition 

Type  B). 
Portrait  oe  Gulliver,  Second  State. 
Portrait  oe  Gulliver,  Third  State. 
Second   Edition.    General  Title   Page 

to  Vol.  I.     (As  in  First  Edition).     SEE 

Plate  II. 
Second    Edition.     General    Title  Page 

to  Vol.  II,  Type  A,  Parts  III  and  IV. 

("The  Second  Edition"). 
First  Edition,  Page  114,  Vol.  II,  Part 

III.     ("ngular"  for  "singular"). 


x  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

Plate  Second  Edition,  Type  A,  Page  114,  Vol. 

II,  Part  III.    ("ngular"  for  "singular"). 

See  Plate  XII. 
Plate      XIII     Second  Edition,  Type  B,  Page  114,  Vol. 

II,  Part  III.     ("singular"). 
Plate      XIV     Fourth  (8vo)  Edition,  1727:     General 

Title  Page  to  Vol.  I.     ("The  Second 

Edition"). 
Plate        XV     Fourth  (8vo)  Edition,  1727:     General 

Title  Page  to  Vol.  II,  Parts  III  and 

IV.    ( "The  Second  Edition,  Corrected" ) . 
Plate      XVI     Fourth  Edition   (Cm.  16),  1727:     Gen- 
eral Title  Page  to  Vol.  I. 
Plate    XVII     Fourth  Edition   (Cm.  16),  1727:     Page 

109,    Vol.    II,    Part    III.    ("deprived 

and  hated"). 
Plate  XVIII     Dublin   Edition    (Cm.    I9y2,    Faulkner), 

1735:     Title  Page. 
Plate      XIX     Dublin   Edition    (Cm.    I9y2,    Faulkner), 

1735  :     Portrait  oe  Gulliver. 
Plate        XX     Dublin  Edition  (Cm.  I6y2,  Hyde),  1726: 

Title  Page. 
Plate      XXI     London  Edition  (Cm.  16,  Stone),  1727: 

Title  Page. 
Plate    XXII     Paris  Edition    (Cm.   14,   Martin),   1727: 

Title  Page. 
Plate  XXIII     Hague  Edition  (Cm.  15,  Alberts),  1727: 

Title  Page. 
Plate  XXIV     Hague  Edition    (Cm.    16,   Gosse),    1727: 

Title  Page. 
Plate    XXV     "Mildendo"   Edition    (Cm.    I5y2,   "Pyg- 

meos"),  1727:     Title  Page. 


THE  WRITER  TO  THE  READER 

Not  many  years  ago  there  fell  into  the  writer's  hands  half 
a  score  of  copies  of  Gulliver's  Travels  printed  in  1726  or  in 
1727,  some  of  them  complete  in  the  two  volumes,  and  others 
of  Volume  I  or  of  Volume  II,  unmated.  A  careful  scrutiny 
brought  out  the  fact  that  of  the  copies  dated  1726  there  were 
several  whose  title  pages  were  seemingly  alike,  but  whose 
texts  differed  to  such  a  degree  that  these  could  not  all  have 
been  printed  from  the  same  set  of  forms,  even  if  the  printer's 
errors  had  been  amended  during  the  press- work.  Of  the 
portrait  of  Gulliver  which  goes  with  these  texts  there  were 
three  marked  varieties,  one  of  which  is  very  rare.  Lastly, 
there  was  at  the  time  a  debate  among  bookmen  as  to  the 
order  of  issue  of  the  several  texts  and  of  two  of  the  three 
portraits  (the  third  having  been  unnoticed).  These  facts 
led  the  writer,  as  occasion  offered,  to  the  study  of  further 
copies,  by  the  aid  of  which,  so  far  as  they  could  serve,  he 
hoped  he  might  bring  together  enough  evidence  to  settle  the 
questions  of  priority.  He  compared  copy  with  copy,  line 
by  line,  noted  misspelled  words,  and  by  tracing  changes  in 
these  from  one  copy  to  another,  was  at  last  able  to  separate 
and  define  the  different  editions  and  to  place  them  in  what 
seemed  to  be  the  order  of  their  issue.  The  conclusions  thus 
drawn  from  within  have  been  fully  supported  by  later  evi- 
dence from  without. 


xii  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

The  following  pages  were  in  large  measure  written,  and  in 
them  the  first  edition  of  Gulliver's  Travels  was  pointed  out, 
before  the  writer  fell  in  with  Mr.  G.  Ravenscroft  Dennis's 
edition  of  that  work  (Cf.  infra,  p.  45).  A  single  footnote 
in  the  latter  might  have  saved  the  writer  a  large  part  of  his 
labor,  if  he  had  earlier  known  the  facts  stated  by  Mr.  Dennis. 
The  footnote  is  on  page  xii  and  quotes  what  is  thought  to 
be  the  first  notice  of  the  publication  of  "Gulliver."  It  reads 
in  part : 

"The  following  advertisement  appeared  in  'The  Daily 

Journal'  of  October  28th,  1726. 

'This  Day  is  Published 

Travels  into  several  remote  Nations  of  the  World,  by 

Lemuel  Gulliver.     In  Two  Volumes. 

Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at  the  Middle  Temple  Gate,  Fleet 

Street.    N.  B.    There  are  a  few  printed  on  a  Royal  Paper'." 

Although  some  large  paper  copies  of  editions  other  than 
the  first  might  also  have  been  printed,  and  been  lost,  the  line 
last  above  quoted  furnishes  strong  evidence  that  the  known 
large  paper  copies  with  Gulliver's  portrait  in  the  rare  state 
are  of  the  first  edition,  and  they  might  well  be  taken  to  settle 
this  mooted  question.  However,  the  evidence  set  forth  in 
the  following  pages  may  have  some  value  from  its  cumula- 
tive character;  and  a  knowledge  of  the  method  followed  by 
the  writer  may  possibly  be  of  some  aid  to  investigators  in 
other  like  fields.  A  critical  comparison  of  the  various  edi- 
tions that  followed  the  first  in  rapid  succession  has  probably 
never  been  made  before,  and  these  considerations  may  justify 
the  preservation,  in  printed  form,  of  the  facts  noted. 


PREFACE  xiii 

It  is  even  more  important  to  compare  the  text  of  the  earli- 
est of  Motte's  editions  with  that  of  his  latest,  which  embodies 
corrections  supplied  by  Swift's  friend,  Charles  Ford ;  and 
these  texts  with  that  of  Faulkner  (Dublin),  which  was  the 
first  to  contain  passages  suppressed  or  altered  by  Motte,  and 
is  supposed  to  have  had  the  approval,  if  not  the  active  super- 
vision, of  Swift  himself. 

The  writer  wishes  to  express  his  appreciation  of  the  in- 
terest taken  in  this  work  and  assistance  rendered  by  his 
friend,  the  late  Professor  Isaac  N.  Demmon. 

Lucius  L.  Hubbard 
Houghton,  Michigan 
June,  1921 


TABLE  I.    REFERENCES 

To  find  passages  in  Gulliver's  Travels  cited  in  these  pages,  when 
no  Motte  edition  is  accessible,  the  following  table  may  be  found 
useful : 

Motte  Editions 

First,  1726,  and  Fourth  (8vo),  1727 — (separate  pagination")")  ; 
and  Third,  1726  (continuous  pagination!). 


PART 

I 

PART    II 

PART 

III 

PART  IV 

PAGES 

CHAP. 

PAGES 

PAGES 

CHAP. 

PAGES 

S.P. 

C.P. 

S.P. 

1-17 

C.P.J 

1-24 

I 

1-29 

149-177 

1-14 

I 

155-171 

25-46 

II 

30-42 

178-190 

15-34 

II 

18-32 

172-186 

47-64 

III 

43-66 

191-214 

35-47 

III 

33-46 

187-200 

65-76 

IV 

67-77 

215-225 

48-61 

IV 

47-59 

201-213 

77-91 

V 

78-100 

226-248 

62-79 

V 

60-79 

214-233 

92-114 

VI 

101-121 

249-268 

80-93 

VI 

80-97 

234-251 

115-133 

VII 

122-137 

269-283 

94-103 

VII* 

98-116 

252-270 

134-148 

VIII 

138-164 

284-310 

104-117 

VIII 

117-131 

271-285 

118-126 

IX 

132-144 

286-298 

127-146 

X 

145-163 

299-317 

147-155 

XI 

164-183 

318-337 

(154) 

XII 

184-199 

338-353 

f  Hereafter  designated  as  "S.P."  and  "C.P."  respectively. 
t  In  the  Motte  C.  P.  edition  many  of  the  pages  are  misnumbered. 
*  In  all  the  Motte  editions,  and  in  the  8vo.  ed.  of  Faulkner,  1735, 
Chap.  VII,  Part  III,  is  wrongly  numbered  V. 


THE  MOTTE  EDITIONS 

SEQUENCE  AND  COMPOSITION 

Gulliver's  Travels,  by  Jonathan  Swift,  was  first  published 
in  1726,  at  London.  In  that  year  there  Were  three  editions 
and  in  1727  one  edition,  all  in  octavo,  and  in  1727  at  least 
one  in  24mo.  that  bear  the  same  imprint  —  "Printed  for 
BEXTJ.  MOTTE.  at  the  Middle  Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-street." 
In  Vol.  II  of  all  Motte  editions  "Benjamin"  is  printed  in 
full,  and  "in  Fleet-street"  omitted.  In  the  following  discus- 
sion the  24mo  edition,  unless  specifically  mentioned,  is  not 
included. 

These  several  editions  consist  of  four  "Parts,"  Voyages 
respectively  to  (I)  Lilliput,  (II)  Brobdingnag,  (III)  La- 
puta,  etc.,  and  (IV)  to  the  Country  of  the  Houyhnhnms. 
The  four  Parts  were  issued  in  two  volumes  of  two  Parts 
each,  and  in  one  of  the  four  editions  the  two  Parts  that  com- 
pose each  volume  are  continuously  paged;  in  the  others, 
separately.  In  the  following  pages  these  terms  will  be  ab- 
breviated' to  "C.  P."  and  "S.  P."  respectively.  The  state- 
ment has  been  made  that  the  Parts  were  issued  separately. 
Of  the  C.  P.  edition  the  Parts  were  obviously  intended  not 
to  be  thus  issued.  Indeed  the  volumes  speak  for  them- 
selves and  there  is  further  contemporaneous  evidence  that 
this  negative  intention  applies  to  each  of  the  other  editions 
also.     (Cf.  supra,  p.  xii.) 

Each  of  Parts  I,  II,  and  IV  has  its  separate  title  page; 
Part  III  has  a  title  page  covering  both  Part  III  and  Part  IV. 
The  separate  title  page  except  in  Part  I  of  the  2nd  and  4th 
editions  has  the  verso  blank  and  is  followed  by  "The  Con- 


16  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

tents"  or  list  of  chapter  headings.  Vol.  I  has  also  a  general 
title  page  —  "Travels  into  Several  Remote  Nations  of  the 
World.  In  four  Parts.  By  Lemuel  Gulliver,  First  a  Sur- 
geon, and  then  a  Captain  of  several  Ships,"  with  the  im- 
print given  above  (p.  xii).  This  title  page  has  its  verso 
blank  in  all  issues  and  is  followed  by  a  leaf  containing  on 
the  recto  the  titles  of  the  four  Parts,  this  in  turn  by  "The 
Publisher  to  the  Reader"  (5  pp.),  which  is  signed  by  Richard 
Sympson.  These  "general"  leaves  in  Vol.  I  immediately 
precede  the  separate  title  page. 

In  the  two  S.  P.  editions  of  1726  and  in  that  of  1727  the 
preliminary  leaves  at  the  front  of  each  Vol.  I  are  numbered, 
the  numeration  including  the  title  page  and  leaf  of  part- 
contents,  which  themselves  are,  however,  without  numbers. 
In  these  editions,  therefore,  as  in  the  C.  P.  edition,  the  Parts 
were  evidently  not  intended  to  be  issued  separately,  so  far  at 
least  as  those  of  Vol.  I  are  concerned.  In  Vol.  II  as  well 
as  in  Part  II  of  Vol.  I,  in  all  of  the  editions,  the  preliminary 
leaves  are  not  numbered. 

In  one  of  the  S.  P.  editions  of  1726  the  preliminary  pages 
of  Vol.  I  are  xvi  in  number  —  a  full  signature  —  including 
four  blank  "versos."  In  the  other  three  editions  of  both 
years  there  are  only  xii  such  pages,  numbered  throughout 
as  above  in  two  of  them,  but  in  the  other  (C.  P.),  only  to 
viii  inclusive.  These  twelve  pages  with  the  first  two 
leaves  of  the  text  (xii-f-4)  constitute  signature  A;  signa- 
ture B  in  each  case  beginning  with  page  5.  In  the  S.  P. 
editions  there  is  only  one  blank  verso,  and  in  the  C.  P. 
there  are  two,  but  the  Contents  in  the  latter  edition  are  con- 
densed into  two  pages.  In  all  of  the  other  cases,  i.e.,  Part 
II  and  Vol.  II,  in  which  the  preliminary  leaves  are  not  num- 
bered (vi  and  viii  pages  respectively),  signature  B  begins 
on  the  first  page  of  the  text.  The  process  of  gaining  space 
is  apparently  responsible  for  this  lack  of  uniformity  in  the 
division  of  the  signatures. 

Each  volume  I  of  the  four  editions  bears  on  its  title  page 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  17 

the  term  "Vol.  I,"  whereas,  of  Vol.  II  of  the  1726  editions, 
in  only  the  C.  P.  edition  is  the  volume  number  indicated. 
This  C.  P.  edition  is  later  than  the  other  two,  as  will  appear 
below,  but  the  title  page  of  its  Vol.  II  was  also  used  with 
the  text  of  the  next  preceding  edition  (PI.  VIII). 

At  this  point  it  may  be  well  to  tabulate  the  four  editions 
in  a  tentative  order  of  their  issue  (Table  II),  to  the  end  that 
the  reader  may  the  more  readily  follow  the  evidence  adduced 
for  that  order,  and  be  better  able  to  judge  of  its  weight. 

If  said  order  (p.  18)  be  correct  —  in  other  words,  if  the 
date  of  issue  of  the  C.  P.  edition  can  be  established  as  later 
than  those  of  the  two  S.  P.  editions  of  1726  —  the  order  of 
issue  of  these  two  is  clearly  indicated  by  the  title  page  of 
Vol.  II  of  "The  Second  Edition." 

With  a  view  to  determine  this  point,  let  us  here  consider, 
apparently  out  of  its  logical  order,  the  C.  P.  edition. 

THIRD  EDITION,  1726,  CONTINUOUSLY  PAGED 

Copies  of  the  C.  P.  edition  (1726)  are  not  uncommon  that 
were  apparently  issued  bound  with  certain  pamphlets 
which  review  the  several  Parts.  One  copy  contains  the 
following:  At  the  end  of  Part  I,  "A  Key,  being  Observa- 
tions and  explanatory  notes  upon  the  Travels  of  Lemuel 
Gulliver.  .  .  In  a  letter  to  Dean  Swift."  (29  numbered  pp. 
and  3  unnumbered  pp.  of  "Book's  printed  for  H.  Curll")  : 
At  the  end  of  Part  II,  "The  Brobdingnagians.  Being  a  Key 
to  Gulliver's  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  In  a  Second  letter 
to  Dean  Swift."  (32  pp.)  :  At  the  end  of  Part  III,  "The 
Flying  Island,  .  .  .  Being  a  Key  to  Gulliver's  Voyage  to 
Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Glubbdubdribb.  Luggnagg  and  Japan. 
In  a  Third  Letter  to  Dean  Swift."  (32  pp.)  :  And  at  the  end 
of  Part  IV,  "The  Kingdom  of  Horses.  Being  a  Key  to 
Gulliver's  Voyage  to  the  Houyhnhnms.  In  a  Fourth  Letter 
to  Dean  Swift."  (28  pp.)  Each  letter  has  the  imprint 
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MOTTE  EDITIONS  19 

Pence."  The  first  Letter  is  signed  "Corolini,  di  Marco," 
and  each  of  the  others  "C.  D.  M."  » 

These  reviews  or  letters  refer  to  the  Parts  or  Voyages  by 
chapter  and  page.  In  the  second  letter,  i.e.,  the  review  of 
Part  II,  the  references  are  to  pages  5  to  156  and  must  there- 
fore be  to  a  separately  paged  edition,  i.e.,  to  either  the  first 
or  the  second.  In  the  fourth  they  are  to  pages  156  to  342 
and  are  therefore  to  the  continuously  paged  edition  with 
which  this  letter  is  bound.  Therefore  at  least  one  of  the 
S.  P.  editions  probably  preceded  the  C.  P.  edition,  and  if 
only  one  it  must  have  been  the  first  edition,  and  can  not 
have  been  the  second,  whichever  title  page  was  used  in  Vol. 
II  of  the  latter  {Cf.  infra  p.  32,  and  Pis.  VIII  and  XI). 

Plates  II  and  VI,  opposite  pages  149  and  155  respectively, 
of  the  two  volumes  of  the  C.  P.  edition,  are  in  all  editions 
designated  as  of  Page  1,  showing  that  their  use  in  a  S.  P. 
edition  was  anterior  to  their  use  in  the  C.  P.  edition. 

In  the  first  letter  the  author,  referring  (p.  16)  to  the 
veracity  of  Mr.  Gulliver,  quotes  his  editor,  Mr.  Richard 
Sympson,  "in  his  Preface,  page  vi."  This  reference  may 
be  either  to  the  second  (S.  P.)  or  to  the  third  (C.  P.)  edi- 
tion. It  cannot  be  to  the  first  edition  because  the  matter  in 
question  is  there  on  page  vii.  Since  the  3rd  or  C.  P.  edi- 
tion was  just  excluded  in  the  reference  to  Part  II  by  the  low 
page  numbers,  the  reference  here  must  be  to  the  other  S.  P., 
i.e.,  the  second  edition,  which  therefore  also  antedates  the 

1  In  the  copy  that  contains  the  four  letters  there  is  also  bound 
immediately  before  the  first  letter  a  leaf  of  "Verses  writ  in  the 
Blank  Leaf  of  a  Lady's  Gulliver,  as  it  lay  open,  in  an  Apartment  of 
St.  James's  Palace."  This  leaf  is  preceded  by  a  title-page  "Lemuel 
Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  Remote  Nations  of  the  World. 
Compendiously  methodized,  for  publick  Benefit ;  with  Observations 
and  Explanatory  Notes  throughout  .  .  .  London  .  .  .  mdccxxvi. 
Preceding  these  two  leaves  is  a  plate  described  on  the  title-page  as 
follows : 

Above,  the  Lilliputian  —  Scene  survey ; 

Beneath,  see   Flimnap,   by  his  Wand,  bear  sway." 


20  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

C.  P.  edition.  The  first  letter  is  dated  Nov.  18th,  twenty 
days  after  the  publication  of  the  first  edition  (supra,  p.  xii), 
and  was  apparently  published  by  the  notorious  Curll,  who 
kept  all  of  Swift's  books  on  sale  (footnote,  first  letter,  p.  7). 

Another  copy  of  the  C.  P.  edition  has,  bound  with  it,  the 
first  letter,  and  at  the  end  of  Vol.  II  a  pamphlet  entitled  "A 
Letter  from  a  Clergyman  to  his  Friend,  with  an  Account  of 
the  Travels  of  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver ;  and  a  Character  of 
the  Author.  To  which  is  added,  The  True  Reasons  why  a 
certain  Doctor  was  made  a  Dean.  London:  Printed  for  A. 
Moore,  near  St.  Paul's,  MDCCXXVI.  Price  3d."  (22  pp.). 
This  letter  is  dated  Dec.  7,  1726. 

In  the  first  letter  the  author  says  (p.  5)  "These  four 
Voyages  are  bound  up  in  two  Octavo  Volumes  .  .  .  The 
town  are  infinitely  more  eager  after  them  than  they  were 
after  Robinson  Crusoe,"  etc.  It  is  probable  that  all  avail- 
able copies  were  bound  and  put  into  circulation  as  quickly  as 
possible.  Gay  wrote  to  Swift,  Nov.  17,  1726,  "the  whole 
impression  sold  in  a  week."  2  The  date  of  the  second  of  the 
above  two  pamphlets,  Dec.  7,  1726,  or  later,  may  therefore 
represent  the  approximate  date  of  issue  of  the  3rd  edition,3 
about  thirty-nine  days  later  than  that  of  the  first  edition. 

Beside  the  above  evidence  for  the  comparative  order  of 
issue  of  the  two  S.  P.  and  the  C.  P.  editions  respectively 
there  is  a  striking  instance  of  sequence  in  the  transformations 
of  a  word  found  in  Part  IV,  52. 12,4  in  the  sentence  "But 
it  is  impossible  to  represent 5  his  noble  resentment,"  etc.  In 
the  four  editions  it  appears  as  follows:  1st  edition  —  "rep- 
resent" ;  2nd  edition  —  "repreat"  ;  3rd  edition  —  "repeat"  ; 
4th    (8vo.)G  edition  —  "represent."     "Repeat"  makes  good 


2  The   Works  of  Jonathan  Swift  &c,  London,  1S43.     Vol.  II,  p. 
594. 

3  Four  editions  of  Robinson  Crusoe  were  issued  between  April 
25th  and  August  8th,  1719. 

4  This  and  similar  references  are  to  page  and  line. 

5  The  Dublin  edition  by  Faulkner,  1735,  reads  "express." 

6  The  reason  for  this  designation  will  appear  later.     See  p.  73. 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  21 

sense,  and  is  the  most  natural  correction  of  "repreat." 
Whoever  was  responsible  for  the  return  to  "represent"  in 
the  4th  (8vo.)  edition,  it  is  quite  evident,  from  many  other 
examples  also,  that  this  reversion  by  Motte  to  an  earlier  text 
was  a  contemporary  admission  that  the  text  thus  restored  is 
the  text  that  was  derived  directly  from  the  author's  man- 
uscript, that  is,  the  first  edition. 

Some  typographical  details  of  this  C.  P.  edition  are  given 
in  the  foregoing  table  No.  II.  The  first  three  Parts  are 
printed  in  uniform  type,  the  fourth  in  larger  type.  The 
latter  Part  may  have  been  set  and  printed  before  the  others 
were  finished,  which  would  account  for  the  otherwise  prema- 
ture reference  to  this  edition  in  the  fourth  letter  which  is 
bound  up  with  it,  or  perhaps  the  letter  was  printed  and 
circulated  contemporaneously  with  the  book,  as  an  adver- 
tisement. 

This  edition  contains  scarcely  a  dozen  errors  of  spelling 
in  the  text,  and  these  are  mostly  of  minor  importance.  With 
the  exception  of  errors  in  the  page  numbers,  it  has  been 
carefully  edited,  not  less  with  respect  also  to  a  systematic 
capitalization  of  nouns,  and  to  punctuation.  It  closely  fol- 
lows the  text  of  the  first  edition.  It  has  the  portrait  in  the 
second  state.  It  is  fairly  common  and  is  usually  described 
in  catalogues  as  the  "First  Edition  [without  comma]  with 
continuous  pagination,"  a  designation  that  is  true  but  liable 
to  misconstruction. 

With  the  perspective  furnished  us  by  the  above  tabulation 
let  us  after  some  general  considerations  proceed  to  a  more 
detailed  examination  of  the  remaining  editions. 

GENERAL  GROUNDS  FOR  PRIORITY  OF  ISSUE 

In  weighing  the  evidence  for  priority  of  issue  between 
two  texts  which  show  a  word  misspelled  in  the  one  and 
correct  in  the  other,  in  "settings"  otherwise  identical,  the 


22  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

correct  form  is  likely  to  mark  the  later  7  issue,  but  when  the 
two  settings  are  manifestly  independent  of  each  other,  the 
correct  form  of  the  word  does  not  necessarily  mark  the  later 
issue  of  the  text.8  The  compositor,  whether  he  be  the  same 
or  different  in  the  two  cases,  may  err  in  either  case,  especial- 
ly if  he  be  in  a  hurry.  The  words  "Subsidues"  (2nd  Ed., 
Pt.  I,  35.5),  and  "ehe"  in  the  running  title  (Ibid.,  Pt.  IV, 
165),  are  frequently  cited  as  evidence  of  priority  over  "Sub- 
sidies" and  "the,"  and  as  marking  the  first  edition  of  Gulli- 
ver's Travels.  Issuing  three  editions  of  this  work  within 
two  months  is  a  further  testimony  to  its  popularity,  and  in 
parts  of  two  of  the  editions  we  have  abundant  evidence  of 
haste. 

The  first  edition  of  a  book  of  this  character  would  natur- 
ally be  prepared  with  more  care,  than  a  later  edition  set  and 
printed  hastily  to  meet  a  popular  demand.  For  the  first 
edition  the  compositor  works  from  manuscript,  but  for  later 
ones  he  would  find  the  printed  sheets  of  an  earlier  issue 
more  convenient  as  copy.  These  statements  are  well  exem- 
plified in  the  editions  above  tabulated  as  first  and  second 
respectively.  Volume  I  and  a  part  of  Volume  II  of  the 
first  edition  are  singularly  free  from  errors  of  spelling  — 
which  are  the  errors  that  the  more  readily  catch  the  eye  — 
while  the  second  edition  contains  many.  Two  prominent 
errors  of  this  kind  have  just  been  cited.  A  few  of  the  many 
others  are: 


7The  words  "Pilate"  and  "Pilot"  in  the  1st  ed.  of  Robinson 
Crusoe  furnish  an  instance  in  point.  Where,  under  the  old  process 
of  hand-inking,  type  were  pulled  out  and  put  back,  they  might  be 
misplaced  and  show  an  error  in  the  later  printing,  but  this  cannot 
apply  to  an  error  like  that  from  Robinson  Crusoe  nor  to  those  about 
to  be  cited. 

s  This  argument  was  advanced  and  ably  defended  by  the  late 
Luther  S.  Livingston,  in  an  article  in  the  New  York  Post  of  De- 
cember 23,  1905,  in  which  he  strongly  differed  from  some  conclu- 
sions in  the  Hoe  catalogue. 


MOTTE  EDITIONS 


23 


FIRST   EDITION 

second  edition 

Part 

I, 

3.19 

too 

two 

16.5 

understood 

understook 

27.9 

momentous 

momentuous 

44.7 

to  and  fro 

two  and  fro 

63.1 

Articles 

Arties 

Part 

II. 

163.16 

Goose 

Goos5 

Part 

Ill, 

79.5 

Abstinence 

Abstience 

80.3 

received 

re-received 

89.7 

strict 

strick 

.19 

Tincture 

tinture 

Part 

IV, 

10.16 

Wonder 

Wondet 

37.2 

Language 

Languxge.    &c.    &c. 

The  compositor  of  a  new  edition  might  correct  some  errors 
in  the  first  if  any  there  were,  and  overlook  others.  He 
would  even  make  new  ones,  as  is  apparent  as  late  as  the 
editions  of  1727.  Witness  the  following  examples  from  the 
4th  (8vo.)  edition: 


Part 

I, 

138.21 

impossile  (for  "impossible") 

Part 

11, 

3.19 

hurlling   (for   "hulling") 

Part 

III, 

5.10 

tryed  (for  "tyed"  and  "tied") 

36.13 

course    (for   "Cause") 

105.8 

think    (for  "thin") 

155.11 

omission  of  "found" 

Part 

IV, 

5.1 

expostuled  (for  "expostulated") 

36.17 

greet    (for   "great") 

45.18 

himself   (for  "myself") 

120.23 

Actvity   (for  Activity") 

139.18 

Smilies  (for  "Similies") 

All  of  which  are  given  correctly  in  each  of  the  earlier  edi- 
tions. 

Part  III  of  the  4th  (8vo)  edition  is  singularly  free  from 
errors  of  spelling.  One  error  common  to  all  four  editions 
is  the  misnumbering  of  Chap.  VII,  Vol.  II,  Part  III,  94, 
which  is  printed  "Chap.  V."  While  this  error  may  have 
occurred  in  the  manuscript,  it  must  have  been  copied  subse- 


24  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

quently  from  the  printed  sheets.9  A  similar  error,  due  rath- 
er to  Swift's  oversight,  is  "Lilliput"  for  "Blefuscu"  (Pt.  I, 
145.8)  which  is  first  corrected  in  the  4th  edition,  and  is 
found  uncorrected  in  some  modern  editions.  This  correc- 
tion points  to  an  unusual  amount  of  care  taken  in  the  prep- 
aration of  the  4th  (8vo.)  edition,  and  yet  we  have  seen 
some  errors  in  that  edition,  that  occur  in  none  of  the  pre- 
ceding. 

Of  the  copies  used  for  this  investigation  nearly  all  were 
in  contemporaneous  bindings,  the  prevailing  style  being 
panelled  calf.  A  few  "hybrids,"  in  which  the  text  of  one 
edition  is  joined  with  the  title  page  of  another,  are  found 
in  circulation,  but  all  that  were  noted  by  the  writer  were  in 
new  bindings.  Possibly  a  commercial  spirit  has  prompted 
some  of  these  combinations,  for  in  this  way  a  "rare"  edi- 
tion could  be  made  that  would  tempt  the  uninformed  col- 
lector, or  a  second  edition  palmed  off  as  a  first. 

Some  unusual  combinations  probably  originated  during 
the  period  of  the  early  issues.  One  such  is  the  combination 
already  noted  of  the  preliminary  leaves  and  text  of  "The 
Second  Edition,"  Vol.  II,  with  the  first  title  page  of  the  3rd 
edition  (edition  not  noted  on  title  page).  At  least  one  copy 
like  this  is  known  in  contemporaneous  binding  and  was 
probably  the  work  of  the  publisher;  rebound  copies  are 
common ;  the  supply  of  the  proper  title  page  may  have  been 
exhausted.  This  combination  has  given  rise  to  the  belief 
that  there  were  two  issues  of  the  2nd  edition,  and  further 
ground  for  this  belief  lies  in  some  minor  variations  in  the 
text  that  will  be  considered  duly.  Note  well,  that  the  mates 
(Vol.  I)  of  these  two  varieties  of  Vol.  II  are  in  all  respects 
identical. 

The  first  edition,  as  already  noted,  has  xvi  preliminary 
pages  at  the  front  of  Vol.  I  while  each  of  the  later  editions 
has  but  xii.     The  printed  matter  is  the  same  in  each  case, 

9  The  same  error  appears  in  the  24mo.  ed.  of  1727,  by  the  same 
publisher,  and  in  the  8vo.  (but  not  in  the  l2mo.)  Dublin  ed.  of  1735. 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  25 

but  in  the  first  edition  there  are  four  blank  pages,  in  the 
third,  two,  and  in  the  second  and  fourth  there  is  one.  In 
these  the  printed  matter  has  been  moved  towards  the  front  to 
fill  one  or  more  of  the  blank  pages.  To  the  pages  thus 
gained  in  the  C.  P.  edition  a  fourth  was  added  by  condens- 
ing the  three  pages  of  the  Contents  into  two,  as  already 
noted.  The  resulting  xii  pages  of  preliminary  matter 
united  with  the  first  four  pages  of  text  form  signature  A, 
leaving  144  pages  of  text  in  Part  I  for  the  next  nine  full 
signatures.  This  change  was  in  the  interest  of  economy,  and 
of  the  two  editions  the  one  that  is  the  more  economically 
arranged  should  seem  to  be  the  later. 

In  Part  II  there  are  no  differences  in  the  signature  divi- 
sions, between  the  1st  and  2nd  editions  —  3  preliminary 
leaves,  10  full  signatures  and  two  leaves  of  signature  M. 
In  the  third  edition,  however,  two  full  pages  are  gained  in 
Chapters  VI  and  VII. 

In  Part  III  the  second  edition  gains  one  page  over  the 
first  edition,  in  Chapter  XI.  The  third  edition  is  like  the 
second. 

In  Part  IV  the  first  two  editions  are  alike  in  their  signa- 
tures, and  the  third,  although  slightly  different  from  them, 
occupies  the  same  number  of  pages.  This  difference  is  due 
to  several  slight  enlargements  of  the  text. 

The  order  of  issue  of  the  first  three  editions  as  shown  in 
the  table  is  thus  also  on  economical  grounds  apparently 
justified.10 

PORTRAITS 

Each  of  the  octavo  editions  has,  as  frontispiece  to  Vol.  I, 
an  oval  medallion  portrait  of  "Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver." 
This  portrait  occurs  in  three  states.     The  earliest  print  has 

10  W.  Spencer  Jackson,  in  Vol.  XII,  p.  144,  of  The  Prose  Works  of 
Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.,  edited  by  Temple  Scott,  rightly  designates 
the  first  edition  of  Gulliver's  Travels  (Cf.  Vol.  VIII  of  the  same 
series.) 


26  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

the  name  of  Gulliver  in  a  tablet  below  the  medallion,  while 
a  group  of  ten  concentric  lines  in  an  oval  surrounds  the  oval 
that  forms  the  border  of  the  medallion  (PI.  I).  The  second 
state  has  the  name  of  Gulliver  in  or  on  the  ten-lined  oval 
around  the  portrait  and  a  Latin  quotation  from  Persius  in 
the  tablet  where  the  name  stood  formerly.  The  third  is  a 
retouch  of  the  second,  as  is  particularly  evident  in  the  four 
corners  outside  the  outer  oval,  and  in  the  additional  shading 
on  the  inner  oval  (Pis.  IX  and  X).  That  this  is  the  sequence 
of  these  portraits  is  apparent  from  the  absolute  identity,  in 
all  copies,  of  the  ten  oval  lines  in  the  first  two  states.  These 
could  not  possibly  have  been  totally  erased  with  the  name, 
and  re-engraved  without  some  differences.  Moreover  there 
are  in  some  copies  visible  traces  of  erasures  made  of  lines 
and  letters  in  the  tablet,  when  Gulliver's  name  was  trans- 
posed and  the  Latin  quotation  engraved  in  its  place.  In  the 
third  state  these  lines  are  restored.  The  portrait  in  the  first 
state  occurs  rarely,  and  then  only  in  the  first  edition,  both 
large  paper  and  standard  size.  The  portrait  in  the  third 
state  first  occurs  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition,  but  not  always. 
The  other  plates  in  these  editions  are  two  maps  for  Part 
III,  and  one  for  each  of  the  other  Parts,  and  a  plate  of 
symbols  in  Part  III. 

The  consideration  of  the  C.  P.  edition  was  taken  up  out 
of  its  apparently  logical  order,  with  the  object  of  establish- 
ing a  fixed  datum  point,  to  which  different  lines  of  evidence 
might  be  tied.  This  edition  appears,  on  satisfactory  con- 
temporaneous evidence,  to  have  been  issued  later  than  De- 
cember 7,  1726,  and  to  have  been  the  last  edition  of  that 
year. 

It  is  important  next  to  show  that  there  were  only  two 
other  editions  or  issues  in  1726,  and  this  can  best  be  done  by 
describing  and  classifying  the  other  copies,  in  the  order  of 
their  issue,  that  were  printed  in  that  year. 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  27 

FIRST  EDITION 

Some  details  on  this  edition  have  already  been  given  with 
the  opinion  that  great  care  would  naturally  be  taken  in  the 
preparation  of  the  first  issue  of  a  book  whose  claims  to 
public  favor  might  in  part  depend  upon  its  typographical 
excellence,  especially  if  the  author  were  unknown.  This 
opinion  is  found  justified  for  Vol.  I  and  for  the  first  half 
of  Parts  III  and  IV  respectively. 

In  Vol.  I  few  or  no  cases  of  misspelling  occur  unless 
some  of  those  below  be  such. 

There  are  cases  of  the  use  of  "y"  for  "i"  such  as  "coyns," 
"carryes"  ;  tyed,  ty'd,  tied ;  Traytor,  Traitor ;  Pyrate,  Pirate ; 
of  the  shorter  form  of  the  past  participle,  such  as  "fastned" 
and  "stript."  No  uniformity  seems  to  have  been  practised; 
different  spellings  of  the  same  word  occur  on  adjacent  pages, 
or  even  on  the  same  page ;  we  find  Governour,  Governor ; 
Gardener,  Gardiner;  Shoar,  Shore;  extream,  extreme; 
Shooes,  Shoos,  Shoes;  Cloaths,  Cloths,  Clothes;  Wast, 
Waste,  Waist ;  Gooss,  Goose ;  Floud,  Flood ;  Scituation,  Sit- 
uation ;  and  others.  No  arguments  for  sequence  of  editions 
have  been  based  on  these  differences. 

Two  words  are  omitted  without  impairing  the  sense ; 
"grave  (and)  decent"  (Pt.  II,  55.8)  and  "as  fast  (as)  he 
could"  (Part  II,  61.12).  There  are  errors  of  punctuation  and 
a  want  of  uniformity  in  the  capitalization  of  nouns  and 
numerals,  but  these  have  not  been  critically  considered  be- 
because  they  are  not  needed  for  the  purpose  in  hand,  and 
because  no  fast  rule  in  their  use  seems  to  have  been  followed 
in  any  of  the  editions. 

The  text  of  Vol.  I  is  printed  uniformly  from  the  same 
font ;  that  of  Vol.  II  is  also  uniform  throughout  but  the 
type  is  larger  than  that  of  Vol.  I.  In  the  former  the  printed 
page  of  25  lines  is  5*4  inches  high;  in  the  latter,  5T/2  inches 
(second  ed.  5T%  in.  and  5^  in.)  or  less.  Page  74  of  Part 
III  is  wrongly  numbered  "44." 


28  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

The  usual  size  of  the  leaf  in  the  standard  8vo.  editions  is 
about  7|J  x  4%  inches.  Of  the  first  edition  some  copies 
were  printed  on  large  paper,  about  9%  x  5^4  inches.  So 
far  as  known,  these  large  paper  copies  are  found  with  the 
portrait  in  the  first  state  only. 

There  were  seven  text  variations  noticed  in  this  edition, 
which  point  to  changes  that  occurred  during  the  press  work. 
Three  corrected  words  appear  in  only  the  large  paper  copies 
—  all  on  one  page ;  the  fourth  was  found  in  only  one  of  the 
standard  copies  consulted.  The  former  are  "Conspiricies" 
and  "turbulancy"  (Pt.  Ill,  90.11,  90.12  and  90.13),  so 
spelled  in  the  standard  copies,  and  the  catchword  "sufficient" 
(Pt.  IV,  64.26)  which  in  this  edition  appears  to  have  been 
changed  only  in  the  large  paper  copies  to  "frequent,"  to 
correspond  with  the  first  word  of  the  next  page.11 

The  fourth  case  is  "Guiuea"  (Pt.  Ill,  155.1)  which  was 
found  correct  in  only  one  copy,  and  that  of  standard  size. 
It  may  be  noted,  however,  that  the  italic  "n"  inverted  is  not 
distinguishable  from  "u,"  and  if  this  be  a  case  of  "pulled" 
type,  the  correct  form  may  have  preceded  the  incorrect.  In 
any  event  the  above  evidence  should  seem  to  indicate  that 
the  large  paper  copies  represent  an  intermediate  if  not  the 
final  printing  of  the  first  edition.12 

From  and  after  page  90  in  Part  III  there  are  many  errors 
in  the  first  edition,  and  signatures  I  to  K,  pp.  113-144,  in  all 

11  The  word  "frequent"  at  the  head  of  the  next  page  is  mis- 
spelled "frequant"   in  some  copies  of  the  second  edition. 

12  The  errors  on  page  50,  Pt.  IV,  in  the  large  paper  copies,  "trea- 
sted"  for  "treated,"  "old"  for  "sold,"  and  "ill"  for  "till,"  evidently 
originated  during  the  press-work.  These  words  severally  begin  or 
end  a  line.  In  the  standard  copies  the  "s"  of  "sold"  is  already  out 
of  alignment.  It  finally  worked  out  and  was  re-inserted  three  lines 
further  up  before  the  second  syllable  of  "trea-ted,"  as  is  evident 
from  the  fact  that  the  "s"  in  that  syllable  is  of  the  single  type,  and 
not  of  the  usual  "st"  combination.  The  "t"  of  "till"  seems  to  have 
disappeared  from  the  page.  These  errors  were  noted  by  Ford, 
but  have  not  been  found  thus  far  in  copies  of  standard  size. 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  29 

copies  examined  appear,  with  some  minor  exceptions  (see  p. 
33),  to  be  identical  with  the  same  signatures  in  the  second 
edition.  An  examination  of  further  copies  may  result  in 
the  finding  of  a  different  text  for  these  signatures. 

SECOND  EDITION,  VOLUME  I 

The  fact  has  already  been  noted  that  copies  of  this  vol- 
ume, which  contains  the  error  "Subsidues,"  are  mated  re- 
spectively with  the  Vol.  II  entitled  "The  Second  Edition," 
(Type  A),  and  with  another  whose  relative  position  in  the 
series  is  not  indicated,  but  which  is  distinguished  among  the 
S.  P.  copies  of  1726  by  having  "Vol.  II"  on  its  title  page 
(Type  B).  It  is  none  other  than  the  title  page  of  the  C.  P. 
edition  (PL  VIII). 

It  is  in  this  edition  that  occur  the  largest  number  of  errors, 
and  where  consequently  we  should  expect  to  find  the  largest 
number  of  variations  in  the  text,  if  errors  were  corrected  as 
they  were  noticed  during  the  progress  of  the  printing.  Vol- 
ume I  of  this  edition  is  printed  in  large  part  from  a  font 
like  that  used  both  in  the  first  and  C.  P.  editions,  and  in  the 
absence  of  typographical  errors  equivalent  pages  from  the 
three  texts  cannot  usually  be  distinguished  apart. 

In  its  entirety,  however,  the  text  of  Vol.  I  of  the  second 
edition,  in  contrast  with  the  uniformity  that  marks  the  other 
texts,  is  separable  into  four  units,  to-wit :  pages  1-52,  Part 
I;  page  53,  Part  I,  to  p.  80,  Part  II,  inclusive;  pages  81-160, 
and  161-164,  Part  II.  Each  of  the  first  three  units  ends  on 
the  last  page  of  a  signature.  The  type  of  the  first  and 
second  units  is  similar  but  not  identical ;  that  of  the  third 
unit  is  quite  different  from  that  of  any  of  the  others. 
Changes  in  the  page  numbers  and  running  titles  from  unit 
to  unit  increase  the  contrasts,  and  finally  the  paper  of  the 
first  and  third  units,  so  far  as  noted,  is  thinner  than  that  of 
the  second.  These  facts  lead  to  the  belief  that  the  first  and 
third  units  were  not  only  set,  but  actually  printed  in  a  dif- 


30 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


ferent  establishment,  or  in  different  establishments,  from 
the  second.  A  similar  inference  may  also  account  for  dif- 
ferences noted  above  in  the  earlier  issue. 

The  three  title  pages  of  Vol.  I  are  identical  with  those  of 
the  first  edition,^  the  first  or  general  title  page  being  6jV 
inches  high,  outside  border  to  border.  The  separate  title 
page  to  Part  I  of  these  two  editions  (PI.  Ill)  is  the  only 
title  page  in  the  series  that  has  a  printer's  device,  which  is  a 
basket  of  fruit  and  flowers.  The  condensation  of  the  xvi 
preliminary  pages  of  the  first  edition  into  xii  pages  in  the 
later  editions  has  already  been  noted  (p.  16).  Exactly  the 
same  setting  has  apparently  been  used  in  each  case,  except 
that  for  the  Contents  a  narrower  headpiece  and  the  omis- 
sion of  the  tailpiece  were  found  necessary  for  lack  of  space, 
and  in  the  later  edition  the  catchword  at  the  bottom  of  the 
last  page  of  the  Contents  of  Part  II  is  printed  "TRVELS." 

The  preliminary  leaves  of  a  book  are  printed  last.  While 
Vol.  I  of  the  second  edition  was  in  the  printing  the  forms  of 
the  preliminary  pages  of  the  first  edition  were  still  available, 
and  the  printer  here  again  exercised  his  economical  bent  and 
used  with  them  the  old  title  pages  in  preference  to  labeling 
his  new  Vol.  I  as  the  second  edition,  to  correspond  with  its 
mate,  Vol.  II. 

Examples  of  errors  of  spelling  in  this  edition  have  already 
been  given.  There  are  at  least  ten  of  them  in  the  first  unit 
to  two  in  the  other  ninety-six  pages  of  Part  I.  In  some 
copies  corrections  have  been  made  of  some  of  these  errors 
which  are  not  without  interest : 


p.    22.3 

p.  25 

p.  26.21 

FOUND  IN  COPIES 

gerat 
gerat 
great 
great 

Headpiece  inverted 
Headpiece  upright 
Headpiece  inverted 
Headpiece  upright 

inpartially 
inpartially 
impartially 
impartially 

five 
two 
two 
two 

These  three  errors  occur  respectively  on  pages  2,  5,  and  6 
of  signature  C,  Part  I.     The  signatures  were  printed  in  two 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  31 

halves  or  "lorms"  of  eight  pages  each,  front  and  back,  in 
two  operations.  Pages  2  and  6  were  on  one  side  —  the 
inner  form  —  and  page  5  was  on  the  outer.  The  inner 
form  of  some  sheets  must  have  been  printed  at  the  same  time 
as  the  outer  of  other  sheets,  both  before  and  after  the  cor- 
rection of  the  errors,  leaving  one  side  of  the  sheet  blank  in 
each  case,  while  the  sheets  perhaps  were  drying.  Sheets 
with  "gerat"  and  "inpartially,"  were  then  printed  on  the 
back,  respectively  before  and  after  the  correction  of  the 
headpiece.  Similarly,  of  sheets  on  which  the  headpiece  side 
or  outer  form  was  printed  first  (uncorrected  and  corrected 
respectively),  some  were  then  printed  on  the  other  side 
before,  and  some  after  the  two  words  had  been  corrected. 
In  no  other  probable  way  would  the  intermediate  combina- 
tions be  possible. 

Copies  with  all  three  corrections  represent  therefore  the 
latest  states  of  the  forms  in  question.  The  two  copies  noted 
in  this  class  have  in  Vol.  II  the  title  page  from  the  third 
edition.  The  uncut  copy  from  the  Hoe  collection  is  also  in 
this  class,  so  that  instead  of  being  a  first  edition  it  really 
represents  the  latest  printing  of  the  second.  So  far,  then, 
as  Volume  I  is  concerned,  there  can  not  be  said  to  be  a  second 
issue  of  the  second  edition.     There  was  but  one. 

No  other  variants  were  noticed  in  Part  I,  and  none  at  all 
in  Part  II. 

SECOND  EDITION,  VOLUME  TWO 

Part  III 

The  natural,  i.e.,  the  earlier  mate  of  the  Vol.  I  just  de- 
scribed is  probably  the  more  common  volume,  the  one  first 
above  designated,  and  labeled  "The  Second  Edition"  (PI. 
XI).  The  publication  of  this  edition  having  been  shown  to 
have  preceded  that  of  the  C.  P.  edition,  the  use  of  the  title 
page  of  the  latter  with  the  body  of  the  former  must  have  been 
simply  an  economical  makeshift,  an  example  of  which  we 
have  already  seen  in  Vol.  I.     Moreover,  in  the  latter  combi- 


32  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

nation  there  seem  to  be  the  more  passages  that  have  under- 
gone alteration  (Cf.  pp.  31,  33). 

The  general  title  page  in  this  volume  —  "The  Second  Edi- 
tion" —  is  6y&  inches  high  within  the  outside  frame  of  the 
border.  The  substituted  title  page  is  about  6%  inches  high, 
and  as  noted  above  has  on  it  "Vol.  II"  (PI.  VIII).  In  each 
of  these  general  title  pages  the  first  letter  of  the  date,  M,  is 
larger  than  those  that  follow  it,  and  differs  in  this  respect 
from  the  first  edition,  in  which  these  letters  are  all  of  the 
same  size. 

The  "Contents,"  as  a  unit,  is  of  a  different  setting  and  its 
capitals  are  of  a  different  font  from  those  of  the  first  edi- 
tion. In  the  body  of  the  text,  however,  the  same  font  of 
type  as  in  the  first  edition  seems  to  have  been  used  through- 
out the  volume. 

A  careful  examination  of  Part  III  in  many  copies  showed 
only  two  variants  caused  by  the  correction  of  two  misspelled 
words.  The  identity  of  this  Part  in  all  other  respects  in  all 
of  the  copies,  with  either  title  page  —  and  there  are  many 
means  of  identification  —  is  beyond  question.  These  words 
are  "Debr"  for  "Debt"  (p.  15.15),  and  "ngular"  for  "singu- 
lar" (p.  114.6). 

A  comparison  of  Part  III  in  the  first  and  second  editions 
shows  a  well  marked  difference  in  the  capitalization  of  nouns, 
in  the  spelling  of  certain  words,  and  in  several  cases  in  the 
lineal  grouping  —  or  setting  —  of  the  words  of  the  text  over 
two  or  more  lines.  See  pp.  7,  77,  82,  87,  99,  103,  and  104. 
There  are  some  pages  that  look  identical  in  the  two  cases, 
but  since  great  care  was  generally  taken  to  have  the  pages 
in  the  different  editions  correspond  at  the  first  and  last  word 
respectively,  often  no  dissimilarity  throughout  the  page  is 
distinguishable  where  similar  type  was  used.  These  remarks 
apply  generally  to  Part  III;  except  to  signatures  I  and  K, 
pages  113-144.  Head  pieces,  chapter  headings  and  tail 
pieces,  defective  type  and  misspelled  words  show  that  these 
two  signatures  are  identical  with  those  of  the  first  edition, 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  33 

as  above  intimated.  Of  defective  type  two  instances  are  in 
"I  hired"  (p.  121.7)  and  in  "Mouths"  (p.  123.7),  and  of 
misspelled  words  a  few  are  "Justce"  (p.  113.6),  "en-ed"  (p. 
115.9),  and  "menti-ed"  (p.  139.5). 

As  between  the  first  and  second  editions  only  two  variants 
were  noted  in  these  signatures.  The  error  "ngular"  appears 
in  all  eight  copies  consulted  of  the  first  edition  (PI.  XII). 
It  was  found  corrected  in  two  copies  of  the  second  edition, 
and  in  each  case  the  copy  had  the  general  title  page  of  the 
third  edition,  as  might  be  expected  (PI.  XIII). 

The  second  variant  is  "converse"  (p.  138.1)  for  "(he  had) 
conversed,"  which  occurs  in  the  verbal  form  in  this  passage 
in  copies  of  the  first  edition,  but  in  the  substantival  (although 
nowhere  capitalized)  in  all  of  the  other  editions,  so  far  as 
noted.     (Cf.  infra,  p.  93.) 

Of  Part  III,  then,  there  were  only  two  S.  P.  editions  in 
1726,  and  only  one  issue  of  each  edition. 

Part  IV 

A  superficial  comparison  of  Part  IV  of  the  first  edition 
with  that  of  the  second  edition  leads  to  the  belief  that  they 
are  in  all  respects  identical.  The  first  title  page,  the  head- 
pieces of  the  Contents  and  of  Chapter  I,  the  running  titles 
and  the  page  numbers,  and  finally  the  type  of  the  text,  all 
point  to  this  conclusion.  Careful  scrutiny,  however,  leads 
to  a  different  conclusion.  The  lower  right  leg  of  R  in 
WORLD  on  the  title  page  in  one  case  is  horizontal  on  the 
bottom ;  in  the  other  curved.  The  headpiece  of  the  Contents, 
beside  other  differences,  is  respectively  without  and  with 
stars  at  the  four  corners.  Although  the  headpiece  and  the 
initial  letter  to  Chapter  I  are  the  same  there  are  three  differ- 
ences in  the  chapter  Contents  on  that  page. 

After  Chapter  I  the  headpieces  in  the  two  editions  agree 
only  in  signatures  C,  F,  K,  and  N,  so  that  on  general  prin- 
ciples it  should  be  only  in  these  signatures  that  we  might 
possibly  find  other  evidences  of  identity,  but  in  all  of  them 


34  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

except  N  we  do  find  evidence,  amounting  to  proof,  that  they 
were  not  printed  from  the  same  settings  for  both  editions. 
This  evidence  is  found :  ( 1 )  In  italicized  nouns  whose  initial 
letters  are  from  different  fonts  in  the  two  several  issues  (p. 
71,  etc.).  The  forms  "Gray"  and  "Grey"  are  used  indis- 
criminately, even  on  the  same  page,  so  they  could  not  have 
been  a  subject  of  correction  from  one  printing  to  another; 
(2)  The  first  edition  contains  the  more  reasonable  reading 
in  passages  of  which  two  versions  exist,  as  might  be  expected 
where  type  is  set  from  manuscript ;  (3)  There  is  often  notice- 
able on  corresponding  pages  otherwise  alike  a  difference  in 
the  spacing  of  the  words,  which  not  seldom  extends  to  an 
apparent  reset  of  one  or  more  lines. 

In  signature  N,  however,  instances  of  marred  type,  as 
hereinafter  noted  (p.  36),  show  that  the  same  settings  were 
used  both  in  the  first  and  second  editions. 

This  Part  IV  of  the  second  edition,  beside  its  real  and 
pseudo-resemblances  to  the  same  Part  of  the  first  edition, 
has  some  other  peculiarities  not  equally  accentuated  in  the 
other  Parts.  It  contains  about  sixty  errors,  and  signature 
I,  pages  113-128,  occurs  in  two  entirely  different  settings, 
which  together  contain,  in  the  ratio  of  about  two  to  three, 
about  thirty  errors  or  differences  —  one  or  more  on  each 
page  but  two.  Copies  with  each  signature  seem  to  be  equally 
common  and  each  signature  occurs  in  combination  with  each 
of  the  two  title  pages  to  Parts  III  and  IV,  so  that  there  is 
no  apparent  clue  to  the  order  of  their  issue  nor  to  the  cause 
of  the  variation.  The  usual  correspondence  of  pages  with 
like-numbered  pages  of  other  settings,  as  previously  noted,  is 
here  broken  for  the  first  time  —  the  first  time,  excepting  of 
course  those  pages  where  the  printed  matter  was  condensed 
for  economical  reasons.  There  are  two  different  settings  of 
eighteen  consecutive  lines  on  pages  119  and  120,  and  of 
several  lines  in  the  lower  half  of  page  122;  eleven  lines  of 
the  latter  are  also  differently  spaced  from  the  corresponding 
lines  in  the  first  edition.     These  two  settings  are  best  dis- 


MOTTE  EDITIONS 


35 


tinguished  by  the  absence,  in  one,  of  the  signature  mark 
"Part  IV"  at  the  bottom  of  page  113. 

In  Part  IV  the  following  variants  in  single  words  were 
noted : 


p.  vi.  12 

p.  26.1 

p.  27.20 

p.  31.1 

p.  54 

FOUND    IN    COPIES 

Debate 
Dabate 
Dabate 
Debate 

an  an 
an  an 

an 

an 

Grey 
Gray 
Gray 
Gray 

Voyages 
Voyages 
Voyages 
Voyages 

"5"  broken 
"5"  whole 
"5"  broken 
"5"  broken 

four 
one 
four 
two 

Of  the  above,  "an  an,"  "Grey,"  and  "Voyages"  are  all  in 
the  same  signature  (C)  and  on  the  same  form,  so  that  the 
changes  were  not  all  made  at  the  same  time,  but  "Gray" 
and  "Voyages"  first  and  "an"  later. 


p.  65.1 

p.  72.14 

p.  77 

p.  /7.1 

p.  106.13 

FOUND  IN  COPIES 

frequant 
frequant 
frequent 
frequent 

done 
done 
down 
down 

}  page  numbers 
|  from  same  font 
different  font 
different  font 

Years 
Years 
Years 
Years 

there 
there 
there 
there 

three 
four 
one 
three 

The  first  two  cases  and  the  fourth  occur  in  signature  F 
(pp.  1,  8,  and  13  respectively).  These  pages  are  all  in  the 
outer  form  of  the  signature,  and  the  combination  of  two 
corrected  words  with  "frequant,"  and  of  two  uncorrected 
words  with  "frequent"  is  an  anomaly  for  which  no  explan- 
ation is  here  offered.  The  error  of  the  page  numbers  need 
not  be  considered,  for  the  setting  of  the  page  numbers  is 
independent  of  that  of  the  body  of  the  text.  The  entire  first 
paragraph  of  page  72  appears  to  have  been  reset  when 
"down"  was  corrected  to  "done,"  for  "Proceeding"  in  line 
13  is  found  decapitalized  and  "with"  in  line  9  changed  to 
"with." 

Beyond  page  128  all  copies  of  Part  IV  of  the  second  edi- 
tion appear  to  be  alike,  except  on  page  177.13,  where  "ar- 
rived" in  two  copies  is  "atrived,"  the  form  found  in  all 
copies  of  the  first  edition.     A  defective  "n"  in  "continue"  (p. 


36  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

177.12),  common  to  all  copies  both  of  the  first  and  second  edi- 
tions, and  seven  other  marred  letters  on  pages  183  to  197, 
show  that  signature  N  is  the  same  in  both  of  those  editions. 

The  reset  signature  I,  in  Part  IV,  sixteen  pages  in  a  total 
of  xiv-f-353  pages  for  the  entire  Vol.  II,  is  certainly  not 
sufficient  to  constitute  two  different  "issues"  of  this  edition, 
and  we  may  now  fairly  conclude  that  the  third  or  C.  P. 
edition  of  1726  was  preceded  by  but  one  issue  of  each  of  the 
first  and  second  editions.  The  order  of  issue  of  these  two, 
indicated  on  the  title  page  of  Vol.  II,  of  "The  Second  Edi- 
tion," clearly  establishes  priority  for  the  edition  found  with 
the  portrait  in  the  first  state. 

FOURTH   (8VO.)   EDITION,  1727 

Beside  the  matter  contained  in  previous  issues  this  edition, 
immediately  after  the  general  title  page  of  Vol.  I,  has  twelve 
unnumbered  leaves  of  Odes  and  Verses  which  have  been 
ascribed  to  Gay,  Arbuthnot  and  Pope.  In  Vol.  II,  facing 
the  title  page  there  is  a  leaf  of  "Books  Printed  for  Benj. 
Motte,"  etc.  The  Odes  and  Verses  are:  "To  Quinbus 
Flestrin  the  Man-Mountain,  An  Ode.  By  Titty  Tit,  Esq. ; 
Poet  Laureate  to  his  Majesty  of  Lilliput.  Translated  into 
English"  (4  pp.)  ;  "A  Lamentation  of  Glumdalclitch  for  the 
Loss  of  Grildrig.  A  Pastoral"  (5  pp.);  "To  Mr.  Lemuel 
Gulliver,  The  Grateful  Address  of  the  Unhappy  Houy- 
hnhnms,  now  in  Slavery  and  Bondage  in  England"  (3  pp.)  ; 
"Mary  Gulliver  to  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver ;  An  Epistle" 
(8  pp.)  ;  and  "The  Words  of  the  King  of  Brobdingnag" 
(4  pp.),  the  last  not  found  in  all  copies. 

The  title  page  of  Vol.  I  contains  a  reference  to  these 
verses  and  after  the  designation  "Vol.  I"  the  words  "The 
Second  Edition"  (PL  XIV).  The  portrait  in  the  third  state 
is  found  in  some  copies  of  this  edition. 

Inasmuch  as  Vols.  II  of  the  first  and  second  edition  re- 
spectively agree  to  the  point  of  identity  in  many  pages,  and 
contain  so  many  errors,  the  labeling  of  the  latter  issue  as 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  37 

''The  Second  Edition"  may  have  led  the  compositor  of  the 
title  page  of  this  1727  edition  to  designate  the  second  volume 
as  "The  Second  Edition,  Corrected"  (PI.  XV)  ;  its  mate, 
Vol.  I,  by  comparison  with  preceding  issues  might  properly 
be  and  was  called  "The  Second  Edition." 

In  this  edition  the  text  shows  so  many  agreements  with 
or  reversions  to  that  of  the  first  edition  as  to  lead  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  latter  was  used  as  "copy"  in  the  com- 
position of  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition,  and  that  these  two 
editions,  among  all  that  Motte  published,  are  alone  entitled 
to  be  accepted  as  definitive. 

The  pages  gained  in  Part  III  of  the  second  edition  and 
Part  II  of  the  third  edition  are  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition 
lost.  In  Vol.  I  signature  B  begins  on  page  5  of  the  text, 
and  the  imprint  at  the  bottom  of  the  first  page  of  each  signa- 
ture is  as  of  Vol.  I,  the  signatures  running  uninterruptedly 
through  the  volume.  This  seems  to  show  the  influence  of 
the  then  recent  C.  P.  edition.  In  Vol.  II,  however,  there  is 
properly  a  reversion  to  the  signature  grouping  of  the  S.  P. 
editions,  and  the  signature  imprints  (omitted  in  Sig.  C)  are 
indicated  as  of  Part  III  and  Part  IV,  respectively. 

Before  leaving  this  subject  several  contrasts  may  be  point- 
ed out  in  the  typography  of  the  first  and  fourth  editions 
respectively.  In  each  edition  the  two  volumes  are  printed 
from  type  of  different  fonts,  those  of  Vols.  I  and  II  in  the 
one  case  being  respectively  the  same  as  or  similar  to  those 
used  in  Vols.  II  and  I  in  the  other.  In  the  first  edition  the 
word  "Country"  is  uniformly  spelled  as  here  printed,  but  in 
Vol.  I  of  the  fourth  (8vo.)  it  is  with  three  or  four  exceptions 
printed  "Countrey,"  the  initial  letter  capital  or  lower  case. 

A  tendency  is  also  noticeable  in  the  first  edition  to  print 
cardinal  numbers  altogether  in  lower  case  with  the  qualified 
noun  capitalized,  as  "two  Months,"  "an  hundred  Oxen," 
"two  hundred  Yards."  In  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition,  on  the 
contrary,  these  phrases  are  frequently  printed  "Two  months," 
"an  Hundred  Oxen,"  "Two  hundred  yards";  but  "one  of 


38  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

his  Heels,"  "one  of  the  Captains,"  etc.,  where  "one"  has 
the  force  of  the  article. 

Similarly  in  the  first  edition  "right"  and  "left"  in  connec- 
tion with  a  part  of  the  human  body  are  printed  in  lower 
case,  as  the  "left  Arm,  Hand,  Side,"  as  against  "the  Left 
arm,  hand,  side"  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition.  See,  also,  the 
"middle  Finger"  and  "the  Middle  finger"  (Pt.  I,  pp.  9-23). 

As  might  be  expected,  there  are  many  exceptions  to  these 
rules,  or  tendencies,  and  not  a  few  cases  where  all  rules 
seem  to  have  been  ignored.  The  cases  cited  are  interesting 
principally  because  they  seem  to  indicate  that  in  those  days 
there  were  no  fixed  general  rules  of  typography. 

Some  errors  found  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition  have  al- 
ready been  given  (p.  23),  but  no  variants  were  noticed. 
One  copy  in  modern  binding  was  seen  that  appears  to  be  a 
"hybrid."  The  five  title  pages,  all  of  the  preliminary  leaves 
at  the  beginning  of  each  volume,  Parts  I  and  III  of  the  text, 
all  from  the  C.  P.  edition  of  1726,  have  been  united  with 
the  Contents  and  entire  text  of  Parts  II  and  IV  of  the  (S. 
P.)  edition  of  1727,  thus  adding  apparently  another  S.  P. 
edition  of  1726  to  those  above  discussed.  The  portrait  is  in 
the  second  state.  This  is  one  of  those  casual  combinations 
that  should  be  considered  unofficial  unless  good  evidence  be 
found  to  the  contrary.  In  any  event  it  would  hardly  con- 
stitute an  independent  issue. 

Another  rebound  copy  shows  the  following  combination: 
The  five  title  pages,  all  the  other  preliminary  leaves  at  the 
beginning  of  each  volume  (including  the  odes  and  verses), 
together  with  the  first  leaf  of  the  text  of  Vol.  I  —  all  from 
the  edition  of  1727  (S.  P.) — have  been  united  with  the 
entire  text  of  both  volumes  after  page  2,  including  the  Con- 
tents of  Parts  II  and  IV,  of  the  C.  P.  edition  of  1726,  thus 
making  a  C.  P.  edition  of  1727.  The  portrait  is  in  the  sec- 
ond state.  This  copy  is  in  the  same  category  with  the  one 
last  described. 

The  following  list  of  variations  in  the  several  editions  is 


MOTTE  EDITIONS 


39 


selected  from  a  larger  number  to  illustrate  statements  in  the 
foregoing  pages: 


PAGE  &  LINE 

1st   edition 

2nd  EDITION 

3rd  edition 

4th  edition 

Parti,   44.20 

scape 

escape 

escape 

scape 

114.10 

Clumglum 

Glumglum 

Glumglum 

Clumglum 

II,      4.24 

(as   she)    would 
(He) 

could 

could 

would 

III,  138.1 

(he  had)   convers- 
ed  (very  much) 

converse 

converse 

conversed 

144.13 

deprived   (and 
hated) 

deprived 

deprived 

despised 

IV,      9.2 

stared 

started 

started 

stared 

29.3 

(signs  and)  words 

wonders 

Wonders 

words 

52.12 

represent 

repreat 

repeat 

represent 

64.26 

(is  a)   sufficient 
(cause) 

frequent 

frequent 

sufficient 

71.12 

(were)   bred  up 

bread  up 

bread  up 

bred  up 

72.14 

(be  better)  down13 

down 

done 

done 

74.14 

(Controversies  of) 

Property 
strong    (Biass) 

Propriety 

Propriety 

Property 

.21 

strange 

strange 

strong 

90.11 

(by    that)    Appel- 
lation 

Application 

Application 

Appellation 

92.4 

applies  his  (Words 

never  tells 

never  tells 

applies  his 

to  all  Uses) 

&c. 

&c. 

&c 

124.8 

Point    Problemat- 
ical 

Pointof&c. 

Point  of  &c 

Point  Prob- 
lematical 

141.17 

wooden    (vessels) 

wooded 

wooded 

wooden 

The  transformations  of  "represent"  have  already  been 
cited.  The  words  quoted  from  page  92  are  as  follows  in  the 
first  and  second  editions  respectively : 


"That  he  applies  his 
Words  to  all  Uses,  except  to  the  Indi- 
cation of  his  Mind ;  That  he  never  tells 
a  Truth,"  etc. 


"That  he  never  tells 
Words  to  all  Uses,  except  to  the  Indi- 
cation of  his  Mind;  That  he  never  tells 
a  Truth,"  etc. 


In  the  first  line  the  compositor  got  ahead  of  his  "copy," 
and  after  he  had  set  "That  he"  in  that  line,  his  eye  caught 
the  next  two  words  "never  tells"  in  the  third  line. 

The  word  "frequent"  might  have  been  first  written  in  the 

13  Murray's  Dictionary  gives  "downe"  as  an  old  form  of  "done." 


40  "    GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

manuscript,  erased,  had  "sufficient"  substituted  for  it,  and 
the  substitution  might  have  been  overlooked  by  the  composi- 
tor. The  original  reading  may  have  been  restored  simply 
from  the  uncorrected  printed  "copy,"  or  it  could  have  been  re- 
stored by  Swift,  but  in  the  latter  case  "frequent"  on  the  next 
page  would  also  naturally  have  been  changed  to  match.  There 
is  better  ground  for  supposing  that  Swift  had  a  hand  in  the 
correction  of  the  fourth  edition.  The  laxity  of  both  the  com- 
positor and  the  proof  reader  has  been  seen  to  have  been  so 
great  that  the  correction  of  "deprived"  to  "despised"  oc- 
curred for  the  first  time  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition.  The 
correction  "Lilliput"  to  "Blefuscu"  where  there  is  no  error 
of  sense  to  guide,  may  well  seem  rather  to  have  been  the  act 
of  a  mind  that  was  familiar  with  the  entire  work  in  all  its 
details.  Even  Swift  himself  must  have  originally  written 
"Lilliput"  for  "Blefuscu,"  and  first  noticed  the  error  on 
re-reading  the  printed  work. 

From  the  above  facts  it  is  quite  possible  that  other  copies 
of  the  Motte  editions  of  Gulliver's  Travels  may  be  found 
which  will  show  combinations  of  signatures  that  received 
corrections  during  the  press  work.  It  is  impossible,  without 
further  evidence,  to  establish  any  one  combination  as  the 
stem-issue,  of  which  the  others,  fewer  in  number,  would  have 
to  be  considered  merely  as  variants. 

There  are  also  found  bound  together  in  contemporaneous 
bindings  combinations  of  Parts  that  were  published  at  dif- 
ferent periods,  such  as  Vol.  I,  first  edition  (S.  P.)  1726,  with 
Vol.  II,  "Second  Edition,  Corrected"  (S.  P.)  1727;  Vol.  I, 
third  edition  (C.  P.)  1726,  with  Part  III,  second  edition,  and 
Part  IV,  first  edition,  showing  apparently  that  some  odds  and 
ends  were  utilized  by  the  publisher  to  satisfy  public  demand. 

The  following  table  gives  a  resume  of  the  main  features 
by  which  we  may  be  enabled  to  recognize  the  different 
editions,  as  thus  far  known  to  the  writer.  The  description 
of  headpieces  is  not  meant  to  be  technical,  nor  in  greater 
detail  than  to  afford  identification. 


0 

;- 
0 

5 

U 

5 

c 
s 

Sun     (?)     in     centre 
with    falcon    on    each 
side ;  scrolls,  &c. 

Mermaid    in    centre; 
griffin   on   each   side ; 
scrolls,  &c. 

Urn  in  centre,   flank- 
ed by  winged   female 
busts ;   falcon  at  each 
end;  scrolls,  &c. 

Man  and  woman  seat- 
ed with  backs  to  cen- 
tre ;    scrolls,    flowers, 
&c. 

Head    crowned    with 
leaves      in      irregular 
frame ;  falcon  at  each 
end ;  scrolls,  &c. 

■CM 
fc-g 
2  . 

e/T 

in  "£ 

11 

COO 

Same     as     Part     III, 
Chap.    I,    4th    (8vo) 
Ed. 

en 

.5 

'3 

Ih 
** 

cu 
en 

03 

2 

y. 

c 

5 
w 

1 

H 

Mask  in  centre ;  dove  on 
each    side ;     scrolls,    &c. 
5  mm.  wide 

u    en 

MH  ^ 

o  o 

Ih 

en    CJ 

bfi  en 

'Ss 

C    <U 
03   O 

"O   C 

rt  — 

Spread  falcon  in  irregu- 
lar frame  in  center;  nude 
female     figure     at     each 
end;     scrolls,     branches, 
flowers,   &c. 

Scrolls    with    basket    of 
flowers      at     each     end. 
Nearly  1  cm.  wide 

Face    in    fringed    oval; 
cornucopiae   of   flowers; 
scrolls,    &c. 

ci 

oi 
.C 

O 

Ih 

03 
Ph 

en  "O 

OJW 

CU   *J 

s^ 

03 

Head  of  Satyr  in  centre; 
pugnacious      falcon      at 
each   end ;    scrolls,   &c. 

cu 

Ih 

CU 

cu 

ho*3 

-*->    en 
en    03 

bfi  2 

o  r 

Q    3 

c 

i 

n 

8 
& 

Open  book  in  cen- 
tre ;     two     spread 
falcons,  flowers,  &c 

i— T 

T3 

t« 

03  w 
Pn^n 

3  » 

c 

<U    CU 

Ec 

03    O 

t/2U 

Shell   with   Aldine 
device    in    centre ; 
scrolls,    &c. 

i — r  . 

-a 
t« 

en 

«i-r 

c  d 

wo 

Diana,    dogs,    well 
and    nouses ;    stag 
in  centre 

Open  book  in  cen- 
tre in  oval.     Two 
lions  rampant.  "S. 
A."  on  book 

As  in  Contents  of 
1st  Ed.,  but  has  a 
star  at  each  of  the 
four  corners 

03    en 
Ph  — 

en    e/T 

cu  <u 

11 

corj 

0 

5 
W 

:- 

CO 

gj 

Two  pairs  of  crossed 
trumpets,     two     open 
books,  harp,  flowers,  &c 

2  c 

.Q    3 

O 

•  -  u 

en   bo 

cu   cu 

O,  0 

S.g 

*S  *> 

(§1 

Face  in  frame  in  cen- 
tre, with  winged  bust 
on  each  side;  scrolls, 
&c. 

Buildings     in    middle 
back    ground ;     shep- 
herd, and  shepherdess 
on  left. 

Rectangle     of     scroll 
work ;    two    stars    in 
each  bottom  corner 

Helmeted    head    with 
wings,     over    crossed 
trumpets 

Rectangle     of     scroll 
work.      No    star    ex- 
actly  at   each   of   the 
four  corners 

Bare       head       above 
winged    breast,    over 
crossed  trumpets ;  rose 
branches,    &c. 

en 

c 

u  C 

as  o 
PhO 

CU 

ft 

0 

en 

1 — l    CU 

"£  c 

rt  o 
PhU 

u 

cu 

Q, 

o3 

u 

en 

i— i  53 
V,  c 

03    O 
PhO 

Ih 

CU 

Ch 

03 

o 

en 

>"£ 

t— i   cu 

o3    O 
PhU 

Ih 

cu 

Ch 

o3 

O 

42  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

THE  24MO.  MOTTE  EDITION  OF  1727 

This  edition,  mentioned  in  the  opening  paragraph  above, 
is  without  the  portrait,  but  in  other  respects  follows  the 
general  arrangement  and  most  of  the  details  of  the  fourth 
(8vo.)  edition.  Some  copies  include  the  Odes  and  Verses, 
which,  however,  are  not  mentioned  on  the  title  page  (PL 
XVI).  The  paging  is  continuous  in  each  of  the  two  vol- 
umes ;  the  text  numbers  264  and  269  pages  respectively.  In 
Vol.  I  the  six  preliminary  leaves  are  the  general  title  page 
(verso  blank),  the  general  Contents  (verso  blank),  The 
Publisher  to  the  Reader  (2  11.,  of  which  three  pages  are  num- 
bered iv-vi),  the  separate  title  page  (verso  blank)  and  the 
Contents  (to  Pt.  I,  2  pp.).  The  other  preliminary  leaves 
are  unnumbered.  The  Odes  and  Verses  (xii  unnumbered 
pages)  include  "The  Words  of  the  King  of  Brobdingnag," 
but  are  not  found  in  all  copies.  Signature  G  begins  on  the 
last  page  of  Part  I  —  p.  121  —  and  includes  the  unnumbered 
preliminary  pages  of  Part  II  (Pis.  XVI  and  XVII). 

In  Vol.  II  the  six  preliminary  pages  are  unnumbered  — 
title  page  (verso  blank),  and  Contents  (2  11)  — and  signa- 
ture B  begins  on  page  1  of  the  text.  In  Vol.  I  the  signature 
marks  are  to  Parts  I  and  II;  in  Vol.  II  they  are  to  Vol.  II, 
an  inconsistency  already  noted  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition. 

Beside  the  usual  five  maps  and  plate  of  symbols  in  the  two 
volumes,  each  Part  has  one  engraved  plate  in  which  are  one 
or  more  scenes  descriptive  of  the  text. 

The  text  of  the  two  volumes  is  printed  from  different 
fonts ;  the  printed  page  in  Vol.  I  contains  usually  thirty-two 
lines,  that  in  Vol.  II,  thirty-one. 

Parts  I  and  II  contain  about  thirty  errors  each,  many  of 
which  are  different  from  those  in  the  preceding  editions ; 
Parts  III  and  IV  contain  together  about  twenty-five.  Only 
three  variants  were  noted,  one  with  a  correction  in  the  text 
and  two,  in  the  preliminary  pages. 

In  this  edition,  which  was  probably  published  at  a  "popu- 


MOTTE  EDITIONS  43 

lar"  price,  we  find  the  occurrence  of  some  errors  noted  in 
the  preceding  editions  of  1726,  among  the  most  characteris- 
tic of  which  are  the  following:  "Lilliput"  for  "Blefuscu" 
(Pt.  I,  119.20)  ;  "Spirits  and  Hobgoblins"  for  "Sprites  and 
Hobgoblins"  (Pt.  Ill,  24.26)  ;  "Death"  for  "Dearth"  (Ibid., 
34.28)  ;  "deprived"  for  "despised"  (Ibid.,  109.14,  see  also 
PI.  XVII)  ;  "repeat"  for  "represent"  (Pt.  IV,  163.9),  and 
"never  tells  Words"  (Ibid.,  192.5). 


FORD  AND  FAULKNER 

TEXT  DIFFERENCES 

In  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition  several  alterations  of  the  orig- 
inal text  are  found,  that  indicate  very  positively  the  influence 
of  Swift,  or  of  some  other  person  familiar  with  the  work. 
Such,  for  example,  are  "Sprites"  for  "Spirits"  (III,  31.15), 
"Dearth"  for  "Death"  (III,  44.21),  and  "Lilliput"  for 
"Blefuscu"  (I,  145.8).  These  substitutions  are  largely  in 
single  words,  and  although  the  sense  is  modified  by  some 
of  them,  they  are  rather  corrections  of  typographical  errors, 
like  the  first  two  above,  than  modifications  of  ideas  that  were 
stated  with  evident  intent  in  the  earlier  text. 

It  was  not  until  1735  that  text  changes  of  the  latter  kind 
were  made  public,  by  George  Faulkner,  a  Dublin  publisher, 
changes  of  such  positive  character  and  such  scope  as  must 
have  awakened  interest  anew  in  this  world  classic.  Of  the 
changes  made  by  Faulkner,  some  are  admitted  to  have 
emanated  from  Swift,  while  as  to  others,  opinion  is  still 
divided.  It  is  possible  to  follow  back,  probably  to  their 
common  source,  (1)  the  typographical  corrections  and  (2) 
those  more  extensive  modifications,  the  former  of  which  first 
found  expression  in  the  final  Motte  edition  and  confirmation 
in  Faulkner,  and  the  modifications,  in  Faulkner,  seven  years 
later.  Faulkner  also  introduced  (3)  the  other  changes  above 
mentioned,  the  source  of  which  is  a  matter  of  inference. 

These  three  several  classes  of  text  alteration  have  been 
tabulated  in  an  equal  number  of  lists,  in  two  of  which  are 
placed  side  by  side  the  words  or  phrases  affected,  with  or 
without  comment  as  may  seem  necessary  or  appropriate.  The 
Ford,  Motte,  and  Faulkner  text  differences  of  Class  1  are 
given  in  List  I ;  the  more  extensive  modifications,  in  List  II 


THE   FORD   CORRECTIONS  45 

—  both  in  the  Appendix.  This  arrangement  is  proper,  for 
the  evidence  in  the  case  can  not  be  presented  in  chronological 
order;  because,  for  the  earlier  text  corrections,  it  did  not 
develop  until  the  later  corrections  were  about  to  be  made, 
and  in  connection  with  them.  Besides,  this  matter  conceiv- 
ably will  have  but  little  interest  for  any  other  readers  than 
specialists. 

Mr.  G.  Ravenscroft  Dennis  in  the  introductory  pages  to 
the  edition  of  Gulliver's  Travels  published  at  London  by  G. 
Bell  and  Sons,  Ltd.,  in  1908  and  again  in  1914  (Bohn's 
Standard  Library),  has  gone  at  some  length  into  this  subject, 
and  has  rendered  valuable  service  to  students  of  "Gulliver" 
by  the  evidence  he  has  gathered  from  contemporary  letters 
of  Swift  and  others.  From  his  work  many  of  the  following 
facts  have  been  derived. 

THE  FORD  CORRECTIONS 

Charles  Ford,  a  friend  of  Swift,  sent  to  Motte  from  Dub- 
lin, where  Swift  then  resided,  a  letter  dated  January  3, 
1726(7),  with  a  postscript  containing  as  many  "errors  of 
the  press"  as  Ford  "could  find,  with  the  corrections  of  them 
as  the  plain  sense  must  lead,"  and  with  the  wish  that  Motte 
would  insert  them  when  he  made  a  new  edition.  The  author- 
ship of  Gulliver's  Travels  was  not  at  that  time  generally 
known.  In  his  list  Ford  indicated  a  large  number  of  typo- 
graphical errors,  and  pointed  out  specific  passages  to  which 
he  took  exception,  and  in  the  body  of  the  letter  he  referred 
particularly  to  the  paragraph  relating  to  Queen  Anne  (Pt. 
IV,  p.  90),  which  he  said  was  "plainly  false  in  fact,"  and 
he  desired  that  it  might  be  left  out  in  the  next  edition.  These 
"corrections"  formed  the  basis  of  such  changes  as  were 
made  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition,  1727,  but  not  all  of  them 
were  adopted,14  and  a  few  others  were  added. 

14  The  "corrections,"  to  which  Ford  and  Swift  variously  allude,  as 
of  "errors  of  the  press."  and  as  "that  paper,"  are  the  "errata"  that 
form  the  postscript  to  Ford's  letter.  Beside  the  typographical  errors, 


46  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

In  Faulkner's  Dublin  edition,  1735,  which  was  issued  both 
in  octavo  15  and  in  duodecimo,10  and  formed  the  third  of  four 
volumes  of  the  "Author's  Works,"  1T  there  appears  for  the 
first  time  a  letter,  presumably  from  Swift,  in  the  guise  of 
"A  Letter  from  Capt.  Gulliver  to  his  Cousin  Sympson,"  who, 
it  will  be  remembered,  was  the  sponsor  for,  and  signed  the 
introduction  to,  the  "Travels,"  under  the  head  of  "The  Pub- 
lisher to  the  Reader."  This  letter  is  dated  April  2,  1727.  A 
part  of  it,  in  the  original  typography,  is  here  quoted  from 
Faulkner  —  the  part  that  relates  to  the  subject  under  dis- 
cussion. 

A  Letter  from  Capt.  Gulliver 

to  his 

Cousin  Sympson. 

"I  hope  you  will  be  ready  to  own  publickly,  whenever  you 
shall  be  called  to  it,  that  by  your  great  and  frequent  Urgency 
you  prevailed  on  me  to  publish  a  very  loose  and  uncorrect 
Account  of  my  Travels ;  with  Direction  to  hire  some  young 
Gentlemen  of  either  University  to  put  them  in  Order,  and 
correct  the  Style,  as  my  Cousin  D ampler  did  by  my  Advice, 
in  his  Book  called,  A  Voyage  round  the  World.  But  I  do 
not  remember  I  gave  you  Power  to  consent,  that  any  thing 
should  be  omitted,  and  much  less  that  any  thing  should  be 
inserted  :  Therefore,  as  to  the  latter,  I  do  here  renounce  every 
thing   of   that   Kind ;   particularly   a   Paragraph   about   her 

the  errata  include  some  caustic  comments  on  the  —  to  Ford  — 
evident  corruption  of  Swift's  text.  These  comments  and  a  few  of 
the  suggested  corrections  have  been  deleted  by  various  forms  of 
pen  strokes,  but  a  careful  examination  of  all  the  evidence  makes  it 
probable  that  the  deletions  were  made,  not  by  Ford  but  by  Motte. 
In  two  instances  the  pen  strokes  run  beneath  the  lines  rather  than 
through  them,  and  may  not  have  been  intended  for  deletions.  Some 
of  the  Ford  comments  will  be  given  in  their  appropriate  place. 

15  The  portrait  frontispiece  from  this  edition  is  reproduced  in 
Plate  XIX. 

16  Reprinted  in  1752,  and  the  8vo.  ed.  in  1743  and  1772. 
17  See  reproduction  of  the  8vo.  title  page,  Plate  XVIII. 


THE   FORD   CORRECTIONS  47 

Majesty  the  late  Queen  Anne,  of  most  pious  and  glorious 
Memory;  although  I  did  reverence  and  esteem  her  more 
than  any  of  human  Species.  But  you,  or  your  Interpolator, 
ought  to  have  considered,  that  as  it  was  not  my  Inclination, 
so  was  it  not  decent  to  praise  any  Animal  of  our  Composition 
before  my  Master  Houyhnhnm:  And  besides,  the  Fact  was 
altogether  false;  for  to  my  Knowledge,  being  in  England 
during  some  Part  of  her  Majesty's  Reign,  she  did  govern  by 
a  chief  Minister ;  nay,  even  by  two  successively ;  the  first 
whereof  was  the  Lord  of  Godolphin,  and  the  second  the  Lord 
of  Oxford;  so  that  you  have  made  me  say  the  thing  that  was 
not.  Likewise,  in  the  Account  of  the  Academy  of  Projec- 
tors, and  several  Passages  of  my  Discourse  to  my  Master 
Houyhnhnm,  you  have  either  omitted  some  material  Cir- 
cumstances, or  minced  or  changed  them  in  such  a  Manner 
that  I  do  hardly  know  mine  own  Work.  When  I  formerly 
hinted  to  you  something  of  this  in  a  Letter,  you  were  pleased 
to  answer,  that  you  were  afraid  of  giving  Offence ;  that 
People  in  Power  were  very  watchful  over  the  Press ;  and 
apt  not  only  to  interpret,  but  to  punish  everything  which 
looked  like  an  Inncndo  (as  I  think  you  called  it).  But  pray, 
how  could  that  which  I  spoke  so  many  Years  ago,  and  at 
above  five  Thousand  Leagues  distance,  in  another  Reign,  be 
applyed  to  any  of  the  Yahooos  [sic],  who  now  are  said  to 
govern  the  Herd ;  especially,  at  a  time  when  I  little  thought 
on  or  feared  the  Unhappiness  of  living  under  them.  Have 
not  I  the  most  Reason  to  complain,  when  I  see  these  very 
Yahoos  carried  by  Houyhnhnms  in  a  Vehicle,  as  if  these  were 
Brutes,  and  those  the  rational  Creatures?  And,  indeed,  to 
avoid  so  monstrous  and  detestable  a  Sight,  was  one  principal 
Motive  of  my  Retirement  hither. 

"Thus  much  I  thought  proper  to  tell  you  in  Relation  to 
yourself,  and  to  the  Trust  I  reposed  in  you 

"I  find  likewise,  that  your  Printer  hath  been  so  careless 
as  to  confound  the  Times,  and  mistake  the  Dates  of  my  sev- 
eral Voyages  and  Returns ;  neither  assigning  the  true  Year, 


48  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

or  the  true  Month,  or  Day  of  the  Month:  And  I  hear  the 
original  Manuscript  is  all  destroyed,  since  the  Publication  of 
my  Book.  Neither  have  I  any  Copy  left ;  however,  I  have 
sent  you  some  Corrections,  which  you  may  insert,  if  ever 
there  should  be  a  second  Edition:  And  yet  I  cannot  stand 
to  them,  but  shall  leave  that  Matter  to  my  judicious  and  can- 
did Readers,  to  adjust  it  as  they  please.    .    . 

"Indeed  I  must  confess,  that  as  to  the  People  of  Lilliput, 
Brobdingrag  (for  so  the  Word  should  have  been  spelt,  and 
not  erroneously  Brobdingnag)"    .    .    . 

"April  2,  1727." 

The  corrections  mentioned  by  "Captain  Gulliver"  were,  so 
far  as  we  know,  the  errata  in  Ford's  letter  to  Motte  (Cf.  p. 
45).  Mr.  George  Birkbeck  Hill  thinks  that  although  in 
Ford's  handwriting,  the  letter  was  really  composed  by 
Swift.18  Both  the  letter  and  the  list  of  errata  are  reprinted 
in  the  February  number  of  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for 
1855.  The  editor  there  evidently  interprets  certain  deleted 
passages  in  the  list  by  italicising  them,  and  in  footnotes  re- 
fers to  some  of  them  as  "scored  under,"  but  cites  one  passage 
as  having  had  a  pen  drawn  through  it,  and  adds,  "but  the 
author's  request  was  afterwards  fulfilled,"  —  we  may  add, 
by  Faulkner  in  1735,  but  never  by  Motte.19. 

By  some  editors  of  Gulliver's  Travels  the  Faulkner  text 
has  been  disparaged,  apparently  without  due;  reason. 
Hawkesworth  was  one  of  the  first  of  these  to  attack  it 20  and 
Dennis,  one  of  the  latest  critics,  says  "there  are,  besides 
obvious  blunders,  so  many  minor  variations  in  Faulkner's 
edition,  which  cannot  have  been  made  with  Swift's  sanction, 
that  no  reliance  can  be  placed  on  his  text."  21     Let  us  try  to 

18  Unpublished  Letters  of  Dean  Szvift,  London,  1896,  p.  206.  This 
letter  is  MSS.  No.  561  in  the  Forster  Library  in  the  Victoria  and 
Albert  Museum,  London.  The  letter  is  reprinted  by  Dennis  on  page 
xxvii — but  not  the  list. 

19  Cf.  note  to  List  II,  Appendix,  p.  117. 

20  Cf.  infra,  p.  55. 

21  hoc.  cit.,  p.  xxix. 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS  49 

ascertain  the  truth  concerning  Swift's  relations  with  Faulk- 
ner, and  examine  the  latter's  text  carefully.  It  may  give  us 
some  needed  light. 

There  is  abundant  evidence  to  show  that  Swift  was  at 
first  opposed  to  Faulkner's  avowed  intention  to  print  an 
edition  of  some  of  Swift's  writings.  He  so  expressed  him- 
self repeatedly,  not  only  to  Motte  but  to  others.  This  is 
emphasized  by  Faulkner's  critics.  In  fact  it  seems  to  con- 
stitute their  entire  case.  At  the  same  time  Swift  claimed 
that  it  was  not  in  his  "power  to  hinder"  Faulkner,  and  goes 
on  to  assert  his  own  intention  not  to  ''intermeddle."  22  In  a 
letter  to  the  Earl  of  Oxford.  February  16,  1733,  Swift  calls 
Faulkner  the  "prince  of  Dublin  printers."  23 

The  writer  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  last  quoted,  says : 
"Motte  had  filed  a  bill  in  the  English  Court  of  Chancery,  to 
stop  the  sale  of  Faulkner's  edition  in  England.  Swift  now 
took  Faulkner's  part,  and  that  in  the  most  decided  and  em- 
phatic terms  .  .  .  [May  25,  1736.]  He  afterwards 
states :  'Mr.  Faulkner  hath  dealt  so  fairly  with  me  that  I 
have  a  great  opinion  of  his  honesty,  though  I  never  dealt 
with  him  as  a  printer  or  bookseller ;  but  since  my  friends  told 
me  those  things  called  mine  would  certainly  be  printed  by 
some  hedge  bookseller,  I  was  forced  to  be  passive  in  the 
matter.'  He  declares  it  to  be  his  intention  to  do  the  best 
offices  he  could  to  countenance  Mr.  Faulkner."  2i 

There  is  no  inconsistency  in  Swift's  final  attitude  towards 
Faulkner  and  his  protests  of  loyalty  to  Motte,  and  nothing 
in  these  to  negative  the  possibility  —  indeed  probability  — 

22  Cf.  Swift's  letters  to  Motte,  July  15  and  November  24,  1732. 
quoted  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  vol.  198,  pp.  258-9,  in  the  latter 
of  which  Swift  says,  "I  have  sent  a  kind  of  certificate  owning  my 
consent  to  the  publishing  this  last  Miscellany,  against  my  will." 
See,  further,  letter  to  Pope,  May  1,  1733,  in  The  Works  of  Jonathan 
Swift,  Bohn,  London,  1843,  II,  704;  and  again,  Swift  to  Motte,  No- 
vember 1,  1735,  Gentleman's  Magazine,  ibid.,  p.  260. 

23  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  697. 

2iLoc.  cit.,  p.  261.    Cf.  also  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  770. 


50  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

of  his  aiding  in  the  preparation  of  the  Faulkner  edition.  On 
this  point  we  have  sundry  bits  of  evidence,  some  of  which 
is  important. 

On  June  29,  1733,  Swift  wrote  to  Faulkner 25  and  re- 
ferred him  to  "the  paper"  and  "those  papers,"  relating  to 
Gulliver,  which  he  said  he  had  left  with  Mr.  Pilkington,  and 
which  Mrs.  Pilkington  should  deliver  to  him  [Faulkner], 
and  added  that  he  thought  Mr.  Pilkington  had  "an  edition 
of  Gulliver  where  the  true  original  Copy  is  interleaved  in 
manuscript." 

On  the  same  day  Swift  wrote  to  Ford :  "I  think  you  had 
a  Gulliver  interleaved  and  set  right  in  those  mangled  and 
murdered  pages.  I  enquired  of  several  persons  where  that 
copy  was.  Some  said  Mr.  Pilkington  had  it,  but  his  wife 
sent  me  word  that  she  could  not  find  it."  He  added :  "It 
will  be  extremely  difficult  for  me  to  correct  it  by  any  other 
means,  with  so  ill  a  memory  and  so  bad  a  state  of  health." 
Six  weeks  later  he  wrote :  "All  I  can  do  is  to  strike  out  the 
trash  in  the  edition  to  be  printed  here."  27 

On  November  6,  1733,  Ford  in  his  reply  to  Swift  says 
that  he  lent  "that  paper"  to  Mr.  Corbet,  "to  correct  his 
Gulliver  by;  and  it  was  from  it  that  I  mended  my  own. 
There  is  every  single  alteration  from  the  original  copy ;  and 
the  printed  book  abounds  with  all  those  errors,  which  should 
be  avoided  in  the  new  edition.  In  my  book  the  [inserted] 
blank  leaves  were  wrong  placed,  so  that  there  are  perpetual 
references  backward  and  forward,28  and  it  is  more  difficult  to 
be  understood  than  the  paper ;  but  I  will  try  to  get  one  of  the 
second  edition  [fourth  (8vo.)  edition,  1727],  which  is  more 
correct  than  the  first,  and  transcribe  all  the  alterations  more 
clearly."  We  have  no  evidence  that  Ford  carried  out  his 
promise,  but  the  world  is  fortunate  to  have,  preserved,  the 

25  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  706. 

27  Unpublished  Letters  of  Dean  Swift,  George  Birkbeck  Hill,  Lon- 
don, 1899,  p.  207. 

28  Cf.  Appendix,  p.  95 ;  also,  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  714. 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS  51 

copy  to  which  he  first  refers.  Dennis  says  that  Ford's  de- 
scription agrees  with  that  of  a  large  paper  copy  of  the  first 
edition  of  Gulliver,  which  is  also  in  the  Forster  Library.29 

From  the  foregoing  it  is  apparent  that  Swift,  in  his  atti- 
tude towards  Faulkner  and  the  new  edition  of  Gulliver, 
passed  through  the  several  stages  of  opposition,  indifference, 
and  acquiescence,  into  that  of  cooperation.  How  active  the 
latter  became,  we  shall  see  presently. 

It  was  now  nearly  seven  years  since  the  appearance  of  the 
partially  corrected  Motte  edition  of  1727,  and  there  had  been 
from  the  beginning  only  two  editions  in  Dublin,  and  one 
other  in  England  —  so  far  as  known  —  by  other  publishers, 
and  these  must  have  been  equally  unsatisfactory  to  Swift. 
The  smaller  Motte  edition  had  indeed  been  reissued  in  1731, 
but  it  was  without  even  the  Ford  corrections  (see  Pl.XVII). 
During  the  interval  the  shock  caused  in  some  quarters  by  the 
original  publication  had  subsided,  and  the  book  had  been 
accepted  and  enjoyed  as  a  public  satire,  and  Swift  doubtlessly 
saw  in  Faulkner's  undertaking  a  welcome  opportunity  to 
restore  to  his  text  without  risk  the  passages  omitted  by  Motte, 
perhaps  the  last  opportunity  he  might  expect  to  have  in  the 
then  declining  state  of  his  health.  This  was  a  consideration 
of  no  mean  weight,  to  secure  his  cooperation. 


29  Cf.  Appendix,  p.  95. 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT 

SOURCE  OF  CHANGES  FOUND  IN   IT 

There  were  two  sources,  from  which  corrections  could  be 
had  for  the  work  in  hand,  for  Swift  had  announced  his  belief 
that  the  original  manuscript  had  been  destroyed,  and  his 
inability  to  supply  corrections  anew.  These  sources  were  the 
"paper"  that  had  passed  into  Motte's  possession  and  whose 
contents  had  been  embodied  in  his  fourth  (8vo.)  edition;  and 
the  "book,"  which  contained  in  addition  to  the  corrections 
of  the  "paper"  those  more  important  passages  which  Swift 
wished  to  restore  to  his  text.  The  "paper"  was  of  course 
inaccessible  to  Faulkner,  and  probably  would  not  be  needed 
if  he  could  get  the  "book,"  which  he  finally  did.  He  thus 
announces  the  fact  in  the  "Advertisement,"  which  follows 
the  title  page  to  "Gulliver's  Travels" : 

"We  are  assured  that  the  Copy  sent  to  the  Bookseller  in 
London,  was  a  Transcript  of  the  Original,  which  Original 
being  in  the  Possession  of  a  very  worthy  Gentleman  in  Lon- 
don, and  a  most  intimate  Friend  of  the  Author's ;  after  he 
had  bought  the  Book  in  Sheets,  and  compared  it  with  the 
Originals,  bound  it  up  with  blank  Leaves,  and  made  those 
Corrections,  which  the  Reader  will  find  in  our  Edition.  For, 
the  same  Gentleman  did  us  the  Favour  to  let  us  transcribe 
his  Corrections."  30 

At  this  point  let  us  consider  briefly  the  first  two  sources, 
namely  the  so-called  Ford  corrections,31  before  proceeding 

30  About  half  of  the  "new"  emendations  in  the  Forster  copy  of 
the  "book,"  including  the  long  passages  not  in  the  "paper,"  are 
found  in  the  Faulkner  text. 

31  Through  the  mediation  of  Mr-  Dennis  and  the  courtesy  of 
Mr.  Cecil  N.  Smith,  Director  of  the  Victoria  and  Albert  Museum, 


THE   FAULKNER   TEXT  53 

to  an  examination  of  the  final  changes  introduced  into  the 
text  by  Faulkner. 

1.  The  list  of  "errata,"  or  what  was  also  called  the 
"paper,"  contains  about  a  hundred  items,  which  consist 
largely  of  words  and  short  phrases  with  substitutes  therefor. 
Among  these  there  are  only  a  few  cases  of  obviously  typo- 
graphical errors  —  which  the  printer  might  be  expected  to 
correct  unaided  —  and  only  one  date.  There  are  several 
rather  caustic  comments  on  passages  of  the  Motte  text,  which 
express  the  writer's  suspicion  or  conviction  that  these  were 
not  written  by  the  author,  and  there  is  one  appeal  to  Motte 
to  restore  "those  twelve  Pages  to  the  true  Reading."  No 
substitutes  are  offered  for  these  objectionable  passages,  for 
Motte  should  then  have  in  his  possession  the  original  manu- 
script, but  the  remarks  have  been,  with  two  exceptions,  delet- 
ed with  a  pen  stroke  or  scroll,  which  may  have  been  done 
by  Motte,  for  his  compositor's  benefit,  to  avoid  confusion  in 
the  preparation  of  the  new  edition.  Ford  himself  would 
not  have  crossed  them  out. 

2.  The  corrections  in  the  "book"  consist  of  insertions, 
deletions  or  emendations,  of  dates,  words  and  short  phrases, 
made  in  the  printed  text  —  with  three  exceptions,  the  same 
as  those  in  the  "paper"  —  and  of  original  passages,  some  of 
them  several  pages  long,  that  had  been  suppressed  or,  to 
quote  Swift,  had  been  "mangled"  by  the  printer.  These  are 
written  on  leaves  bound  up  with  the  original  sheets.  All  of 
the  corrections  but  one  are  in  ink.  The  passages  deleted  are 
crossed  out  by  diagonal  lines,  also  in  ink.  Some  of  the  minor 
corrections  consist  in  the  changing  of  a  single  letter  by  writ- 
ing over  it,  and  these  may  easily  have  escaped  the  attention 
of  the  compositor,  if  used  to  prepare  a  subsequent  edition. 
The  corrections  found  on  the  inserted  leaves  were  not  made 
in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition.     They  were  not  in  the  "paper," 

Mr.  Herbert  C.  Andrews,  M.A.,  made  for  the  writer  a  copy  of  the 
Ford  letter  of  January  3,  1727,  with  its  "errata,"  together  with  a 
transcript  of  the  corrections  in  Ford's  copy  of  the  "book." 


54  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

and  since  Ford  has  told  us  that  his  book  was  the  later  of  the 
two,  we  may  thus  doubly  infer  that  it  did  not  reach  Motte's 
hands,  or  at  least  was  not  utilized  by  him.  There  were  two 
passages  in  the  paper  that  were  not  "scandalous,"  and  Motte 
might  have  printed  them  without  fear  of  "venturing  his 
ears."  32 

The  full  significance  of  Ford's  corrections  will  be  realized 
by  an  examination  and  comparison  of  the  texts  of  the  first 
and  last  Motte  editions  in  connection  therewith,  for  which 
the  reader  is  referred  to  the  Appendix,  Lists  I  and  II. 

Hawkcsworth's  Criticisms  of  the  Faulkner  Text 

The  following  much  quoted  passage  from  Hawkesworth, 
one  of  Swift's  commentators  (1755  and  later)  usually  fol- 
lows the  letter  of  April  2,  1727,  of  Captain  Gulliver  to  his 
Cousin  Sympson : 

"That  the  original  copy  of  these  Travels  was  altered  by 
the  person  through  whose  hands  it  was  conveyed  to  the  press, 
is  a  fact ;  but  the  passages  of  which  Mr.  Gulliver  complains 
in  this  letter  are  to  be  found  only  in  the  first  editions ;  for 
the  Dean  having  restored  the  text  wherever  it  had  been 
altered,  sent  the  copy  to  the  late  Mr.  Motte  by  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Charles  Ford.33  This  copy  has  been  exactly  followed 
in  every  subsequent  edition,  except  that  printed  in  Ireland  by 
Mr.  Faulkner ;  the  editor  of  which,  supposing  the  Dean  to  be 
serious  when  he  mentioned  the  corruptions  of  dates,  and  yet 
finding  them  unaltered,  thought  fit  to  alter  them  himself ; 
there  is  however  scarce  one  of  these  alterations  in  which 
he  has  not  committed  a  blunder;  though  while  he  was  thus 
busy  in  defacing  the  parts  that  were  perfect,  he  suffered  the 
accidental  blemishes  of  others  to  remain." 

This  statement  is  not  true.     The  "copy"  that  Motte  re- 

32  Cf.   Swift's  letter  to  Pope,  September  29,  1725. 

33  The  full  restoration  of  the  text  was  not  in  the  copy  that 
Motte  evidently  used  in  his  preparation  of  the  4th  (8vo)  edition,  as 
stated  above.    Cf.  Appendix,  List  I. 


THE   FAULKNER  TEXT  55 

ceived  from  Ford  was  the  list  of  errata  with  the  letter  of 
January  3,  1727,  and  that  list  did  not  restore  the  entire 
original  text.  Furthermore,  Charles  Bathurst,  Motte's  part- 
ner and  successor,  adopted  in  1742  or  earlier,  during  Swift's 
lifetime,  most  of  the  changes  made  independently  and  orig- 
inally by  Faulkner.  If  there  be  any  stronger  argument  for 
Swift's  approval  of  these  changes,  it  may  possibly  be  found 
in  the  text  itself. 

On  this  point  the  following  statement  by  the  Earl  of 
Orrery  is  significant :  "Faulkner's  edition,  at  least  the  four 
first  volumes  of  it  .  .  .  were  published  by  the  permission 
and  connivance,  if  not  by  the  particular  appointment  of  the 
Dean  himself.    .    ." 

"The  English  edition  of  Swift's  works  I  have  scarce  seen : 
and  I  have  had  little  inclination  to  examine  it,  because  I  was 
acquainted  with  the  Dean,  at  the  time  when  Faulkner's  edi- 
tion came  out,  and  therefore  must  always  look  upon  that  copy 
as  most  authentic;  well  knowing  that  Mr.  Faulkner  had  the 
advantage  of  printing  his  edition,  by  the  consent  and  appro- 
bation of  the  author  himself.  The  four  first  volumes  were 
published  by  subscription,  and  every  sheet  of  them  34  was 
brought  to  the  Dean  for  his  revisal  and  correction.  The  two 
next  were  published  in  the  same  manner."  35  Hawkesworth 
joins  issue  with  Orrery  and  files  a  bill  of  particulars  in  the 
form  of  eleven  citations  from  Faulkner's  text.36  It  is  not 
necessary  to  discuss  these  criticisms  at  length,  but  two  or 
three  of  them  are  of  value  for  the  evidence  they  really  furn- 
ish against  Hawkesworth's  contention.  First,  he  quotes,  with- 
out comment  a  change  made  by  Faulkner :  "Whoever  makes 
ill  returns  to  his  benefactor,  must  needs  be  a  common  enemy 

34 Hawkesworth  makes  him  say  "six"  (Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan 
Swift,  London,  1768,  vol.  1,  pref.,  p.  7),  but  Orrery  does  not  say  that 
the  "two  next"  volumes  were  brought  to  the  Dean. 

35  Remarks  on  the  Life  and  Writings  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift  &c, 
London,  1752,  p.  81 ;  Dublin,  1752,  p.  81. 

36  hoc.  cit.,  pref.,  pp.  8  et  seq. 


56  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

to  the  rest  of  mankind,  from  whom  THEY  HAVE  no 
obligations."     (Pt.  I,  Chap.  VI). 

Although  this  expression,  according  to  modern  canons,  is 
faulty,  the  speaker,  when  he  says  "whoever  makes,"  evident- 
ly has  in  mind  the  idea  of  plurality,  and  proceeds  to  express 
it  in  "they  have."  Curiously  enough,  there  is  a  passage  in 
Part  IV,  140.7  of  the  Motte  editions,  unchanged  by  Ford, 
which  reads:  "They  have  a  kind  of  Tree,  which  at  Forty 
Years  old  loosens  in  the  Root,  and  falls  with  the  first  Storm ; 
they  grow  very  strait,  and  being  pointed  like  Stakes  with  a 
sharp  Stone,  .  .  .  they  stick  them  erect  in  the  Ground." 
[The  italics  are  ours.]  In  this  case,  with  seeming  inconsis- 
tency, Faulkner  changes  "they  grow"  to  "it  grows,"  but  this 
may  well  be,  in  order  to  lessen  the  amount  of  tautology  ( for 
"they"  occurs  three  times  in  seven  lines)  ;  it  was  certainly  not 
because  of  the  grammar,  for  in  the  closing  words  of  the  sen- 
tence he  allows  "them"  to  stand,  in  which  he  is  followed  by 
Hawkesworth.  But  in  the  case  above  cited  by  Hawkesworth, 
a  construction  usual  with  Swift  is  restored,  as  we  may  see  by 
reference  to  passages  in  Pt.  I,  33.22;  Pt.  Ill,  19.7  and  25.10, 
in  List  III,  and  Pt.  IV,  77.4,  in  List  IV. 

That  this  method  of  expression  was  not  confined  to  Swift, 
appears  in  Robinson  Crusoe's  regret,  on  the  day  he  was 
washed  ashore,  that  he  had  no  weapon  to  provide  sustenance 
for  himself,  nor  to  "defend  my  self  against  any  other  Crea- 
ture that  might  desire  to  kill  me  for  theirs." 

Further  along  in  the  same  chapter,  where  the  "nurseries" 
are  discussed,  Faulkner  changes  the  age  number  in  three 
instances,  in  two  of  which  Hawkesworth  follows  him  in 
silence  (!),  and  in  the  third  criticizes  as  follows:  "The 
children  of  the  Lilliputians  are  said  to  be  apprenticed  at 
seven  years  of  age  instead  of  eleven,  which  is  evidently 
wrong,  as  the  author  supposes  the  age  of  fifteen  with  them, 
to  answer  that  of  one  and  twenty  with  us,  a  proportion  which 
will  be  nearly  kept  by  supposing  them  to  be  apprenticed  at 
eleven,  and  to  serve  five  years."     (Loe.  cit.,  p.  8). 

The  other  passages  involved  in  this  comparison  are  given 


THE   FAULKNER   TEXT  57 

by  Motte  as  follows:  "When  the  Girls  [of  "quality"]  are 
Twelve  years  old,  which  among  them  is  the  marriageable 
Age,  their  Parents  or  Guardians  take  them  home."  (Pt.  I, 
105). 

"Those  [girls,  of  the  "meaner"  sort]  intended  for  Appren- 
tices are  dismissed  at  Nine  [Faulkner,  "seven"]  years  old, 
the  rest  are  kept  to  Thirteen  [F.,  "eleven"].     (Ibid.,  p.  106). 

In  brief,  according  to  both  Motte  and  Faulkner,  the  boys 
and  girls  of  "Quality"  go  home  on  the  attainment  of  their 
majority,  which  is  at  fifteen  and  twelve  years  respectively. 
According  to  Motte,  the  boys  apprenticed  leave  at  eleven ;  and 
the  girls  apprenticed,  at  nine,  the  other  girls  of  the  "meaner" 
sort  being  kept  until  thirteen,  one  year  beyond  the  attainment 
of  their  majority. 

The  usual  period  of  apprenticeship  in  England  was  prob- 
ably seven  years.  Seven  years  "with  us"  are  equivalent  to 
five  years  in  Lilliput,  so  far  at  least  as  males  are  concerned, 
which  is  evident  from  a  comparison  of  the  ages  of  majority 
(21 :15  t=  7:5).  It  is  also  contrary  to  a  sound  principle  of 
law  to  apprentice  a  person  for  a  term  of  years  extending 
beyond  the  age  of  majority.  Hawkesworth  and  the  Motte 
text  violate  this  principle  when  they  adopt  eleven  years  as  the 
beginning  of  apprenticeship  for  boys,  and  the  Motte  text 
when  it  adopts  nine  years  for  girls ;  and  prolong  this  service 
in  the  one  case  to  sixteen  years  for  boys,  and  in  the  other, 
to  fourteen  years  for  girls. 

The  above  changes  in  the  Faulkner  text  are  not  accidental. 
The  boy-apprentices  serve  from  seven  to  twelve,  the  girls 
from  seven  to  twelve,  and  the  other,  "meaner,"  girls  are  dis- 
missed at  eleven ;  none  of  them  beyond  the  age  at  which  they 
attain  their  majority. 

If  Hawkesworth,  the  editor  and  critic,  failed  to  see  this, 
must  we  believe  that  Faulkner,  the  printer,  would  concern 
himself  with  working  out  the  corrections?  Was  there  not  a 
master  mind  behind  Faulkner? 

Again,  Hawkesworth  objects  to  the  substitution,  by  Faulk- 
ner, of  "bring"  for  "carry,"  in  the  passage,  a  "Gentleman 


58  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Usher  came  from  Court,  commanding  my  Master  to  carry 
me  immediately  thither,"  and  says  "but  as  thither  signifies 
to  that  place,  to  bring  thither  is  false  English."  (Pt.  II, 
Chap.  3). 

Hawkesworth  lacks  imagination.  The  command  issues 
from  the  court,  but  the  direction  is  indicated  by  the  mes- 
senger. Besides,  to  be  "brought"  or  "conducted"  would 
more  appeal  to  Gulliver's  amour  propre  than  to  be  "carried." 

In  the  majority  of  his  citations  Hawkesworth's  criticism  is 
openly  levelled  at  Swift,  for  in  those  cases  Faulkner  retained 
the  Motte  text  after  it  had  been  scrutinized  by  Ford.  A  close 
analysis  of  the  others  compels  us  to  dismiss  the  bill  at  the 
cost  of  Hawkesworth's  critical  ability  or  the  honesty  of  his 
motives.  Charles  Bathurst,  whose  name  alone  appears  in 
the  imprint  of  the  early  Hawkesworth  editions  of  Gulli- 
ver's Travels,  was  the  successor  of  Motte.  Hawkesworth 
was  employed  by  Bathurst,  and  part  of  his  duty  may  have 
been  to  throw  discredit  on  the  work  of  Faulkner.  That 
parts  of  Faulkner's  text  were  not  without  merit  in  Hawkes- 
worth's eyes  is  very  evident  from  the  number  of  changes 
found  in  the  latter's  text  that  were  taken  from  the  former, 
such  for  example  as  the  insertion  of  the  expression  "and  so 
universally  practised"  (Pt.  IV,  Chap.  IV;  F.,  p.  308.10); 
the  use  of  "express"  for  "represent"  (Ibid.,  p.  310.12)  ; 
"compact"  for  "compleat"  {Ibid.,  p.  317.24)  ;  and  the  first 
long  passage,  substituted  in  Part  III,  Chap.  VI,  p.  242, 
slightly  altered  by  Faulkner  from  Ford's  copy,  where 
Hawkesworth  follows  the  Faulkner  text  to  the  letter !  Even 
Dennis,  out  of  seventy-six  changes  original  with  Faulkner, 
adopts  thirty-four.  We  have  seen  that  Bathurst,  as  early 
as  1742,  had  adopted  the  Faulkner  changes  almost  entirely, 
and  if  Hawkesworth  thought  to  excuse  himself  on  this 
ground,  he  would  find  himself  in  the  dilemma  of  being 
regarded  as  the  receiver  of  stolen  goods,  or  of  admitting,  to 
that  extent,  the  authenticity  of  the  Faulkner  text. 

In  support  of  the  view  held  by  Orrery  we  find  the  follow- 
ing statement  by  "J.  N"[ichols?,  a  Swift  editor,  1801  and 


THE   FAULKNER  TEXT  59 

later]  :  "I  have  some  volumes  of  the  Dean's  .  .  .  who 
was  invariably  the  friend  of  Mr.  George  Faulkner;  whom 
he  employed  so  early  as  1725  (after  the  death  of  John  Hard- 
ing) to  print  the  'Drapier's  Letters' ;  and  whom  he  at  least 
tacitly  permitted  to  publish  whatever  he  wrote.  Faulkner 
assures  us,  the  Dean  'corrected  every  sheet  of  the  first  seven 
volumes  that  were  published  in  his  life-time.'  And  in  1735 
Swift  recommended  him  to  Lord  Houth  as  an  'honest  man, 
and  the  chief  printer' ;  and  used  constantly  to  style  him  'his 
right  trusty  and  faithful  friend'."  37 

In  view  of  Swift's  oft-expressed  confidence  in  Faulkner, 
the  latter's  statements  should  be  entitled  to  some  weight.38 
The  caution  shown  by  Faulkner  in  his  early  editions  of 
Swift's  Works,  and  his  evident  desire  to  please  his  author, 
may  be  appreciated  after  perusal  of  a  letter  from  Swift  to 
Faulkner  :38a  "If  this  fancy  should  hold,  of  taxing  me  with 
all  the  papers  that  come  out,  and  at  the  same  time  I  should 
take  a  fancy  to  be  a  writer,  I  shall  be  discovered  when  I  have 
no  mind,  for  it  will  be  only  to  catechise  me  whenever  I  am 
suspected." 

In  his  connection  with  Swift,  Faulkner  was  even  more 
non-committal.  He  did  not  publicly  admit  —  at  least  in  his 
earlier  editions  of  Swift's  Works  —  that  he  even  knew  the 
author  personally.  In  his  preface  to  the  editions  of  1735,  and 
1741-46,  issued  largely  during  Swift's  lifetime,  he  speaks  of 
the  "supposed  Author's  Friends,  who  were  pleased  to  correct 
many  gross  Errors,  and  strike  out  some  very  injudicious  In- 
terpolations ;  particularly  in  the  Voyages  of  Captain  Gulli- 
ver," and  adds,  "that  the  supposed  Author  was  prevailed  on 

37  Gentleman's  Magazine,  vol.  47,  1777,  p.  420. 

38  After  the  entire  page-proof  for  this  work  was  in  the  writer's 
hands  for  correction,  he  came  into  possession  of  the  Faulkner  edition 
of  Swift's  Works,  Dublin,  1772,  and  is  enabled  to  add  here,  perhaps 
not  strictly  in  their  proper  place,  some  important  data  on  the  matter 
under  discussion. 

3S*  Mch.  28,  1732.     Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  p.  679. 


60  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

to  suffer  some  Friends  to  review  and  correct  the  Sheets  after 
they  were  printed ;  and  sometimes  he  consented,  as  we  have 
heard,  to  give  them  his  own  opinion." 

In  the  edition  of  1735  Swift  was  designated  simply  as  "J. 
S.,  D.D.,  D.S.P.D."  In  a  letter  to  Pulteney,  March  8,  1734, 
with  his  usual  caution,  and  a  possible  lack  of  sincerity,  he 
refers  to  that  edition  in  the  following  terms :  "You  will  hear, 
perhaps,  that  Faulkner  hath  printed  four  volumes,  which  are 
called  my  works ;  he  hath  only  prefixed  the  first  letters  of  my 
name  *  *  *  I  have  never  yet  looked  into  them,  nor  I  believe 
ever  shall."  38b  According  to  all  the  evidence  accessible,  the 
date  of  this  letter,  if  given  correctly,  is  too  early  to  have  been 
written  after  the  issue  of  the  entire  edition  of  1735.  Possibly 
Swift  was  here  drawing  on  his  personal  knowledge,  and 
anticipated  the  publication  of  some,  if  not  of  all,  of  the  four 
volumes.  (Parts  of  Volume  IV  are  dated  as  of  1733  and 
1734.)  However  that  may  be,  he  modified  his  statement  ten 
months  later,  in  a  letter  to  the  same  person, —  May  12,  1735 
—  in  which  he  says :  "You  are  pleased  to  mention  some  vol- 
umes of  what  are  called  my  works.  I  have  looked  on  them 
very  little."  38c 

The  reason  for  Swift's  aversion  to  publicity  at  that  late 
day  is  not  important  here.  It  may  have  been  habit.  We 
wish  merely  to  show  that  Faulkner  respected  it,  by  assuming, 
for  the  time,  an  even  greater  reserve.  Perhaps  Swift  had  a 
hand  in  Faulkner's  preface.  After  Swift's  death  in  1745, 
however,  this  reserve  was  no  longer  necessary.  The  title- 
page  of  the  edition  of  1741-46  (Vol.  I  was  the  latest  pub- 
lished) bears  the  full  name  "Jonathan  Swift,"  etc.;  and  that 
of  the  edition  of  1772,  "The  Rev.  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean" 
etc. 

Let  us  examine  the  new  preface,  in  the  final  edition.    It  is 

seb  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  p.  734. 
38c  Ibid,,  p.  740. 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT  61 

evidently  the  work  of  Faulkner,38d  who  speaks  of  the  "Editor 
of  this,  and  the  other  Editions  printed  by  him"  etc.,  and 
among  other  things  says  that  Swift  consented  to  the  printing 
of  the  first  edition  ( 1735)  on  the  following  conditions  :  "That 
no  Jobb  should  be  made,  but  full  Value  given  for  the  Money ; 
That  the  Editor  should  attend  him  early  every  Morning,  or 
when  most  convenient,  to  read  to  him,  that  the  Sounds  might 
strike  the  Ear,  as  well  as  the  Sense  the  Understanding,  and 
had  always  two  Men  Servants  present  for  this  Purpose ;  and 
when  he  had  any  Doubt,  he  would  ask  them  the  Meaning  of 
what  they  heard ;  which,  if  they  did  not  comprehend,  he 
would  alter  and  amend  until  they  understood  it  perfectly 
well,  and  then  would  say,  This  zvill  do;  for  I  write  to  the 
Vulgar,  more  than  to  the  Learned.  Not  satisfied  with  this 
Preparation  for  the  Press,  he  corrected  every  Sheet  of  the 
first  seven  Volumes  that  were  published  in  his  Life  Time, 
desiring  the  Editor  to  write  Notes,  being  much  younger  than 
the  Dean,  acquainted  with  most  of  the  Transactions  of  his 
Life,"  etc.  This  substantiates  the  statement  of  Lord  Orrery 
in  1751,  and  that  of  "J.  N.",  quoted  above. 

That  Swift  did  correct  proof  for  Faulkner,  probably  of 
other  writings,  is  admitted  in  a  letter  from  the  former  to  the 
latter,  of  March  8,  1738 :38e  "You  so  often  desired  that  I 
should  hasten  to  correct  the  several  copies  you  sent  me, 
which,  as  ill  as  I  have  been,  and  am  still,  I  despatched  as  fast 
as  I  got  them." 

Beside  the  statements  in  Faulkner's  preface  ("To  the  Rea- 
der") we  are  told  in  a  foot-note  to  the  same,  first  printed  in 
that  edition  (1772),  that  some  insertions  and  omissions  made 
in  the  London  edition  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Tooke.  "were  set  right 
by  the  Author  in  all  the  Editions  printed  by  George  Faulk- 
ner in  Dublin."     This  probably  refers  to  passages  in  our  List 

38d  Faulkner  died  in  1775. 

3*e  Works,  etc.,  1843,  II,  p.  803. 


62  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

II  (p.  108).     And  again,  Faulkner  alludes  to  his  editions  as 
printed  "under  the  Author's  Care  and  Inspection."  38f 

After  Hawkesworth's  attack38g  Faulkner  violated  none  of 
the  proprieties,  and  was  fully  justified,  in  stating  with  some 
circumstantiality  the  alleged  part  taken  by  Swift  in  the  pre- 
paration of  the  Faulkner  edition.  Even  should  we  feel  in- 
clined to  regard  Faulkner's  statement  as  exaggerated,  there 
is  nothing  in  it  that  can  not  be  reconciled  with  that  in  his 
earlier  preface,  and  not  enough  of  the  improbable  to  weaken 
our  faith  in  Faulkner's  sincerity.  Even  without  this  extrinsic 
evidence,  whatever  be  its  value,  we  contend  that  the  intrinsic 
evidence  by  itself  goes  far  to  support  the  idea  of  Swift's 
responsibility  for  the  changes  in  the  Faulkner  text  —  for  all 
of  them,  barring  typographical  errors.  This  argument  takes 
on  additional  weight,  when  we  examine  the  text  of  1772  and 
find  that  in  seven  out  of  eleven  cases  Faulkner,  in  deference 
to  the  published  criticisms  of  Hawkesworth,  has  restored  in 
it  the  Motte  readings.  This  is  enough  to  prove  the  writ- 
er's contention,  made  on  other  pages  herein,  that  Faulkner 
himself  did  not  originate  even  the  minor  changes  made  for 
the  first  time  in  the  edition  of  1735,  neither  had  he  the  wit  to 
appreciate  the  fallacies  in  Hawkesworth's  arguments.3811  The 
Faulkner  edition  of  Gulliver's  Travels,  of  1772,  can  not  there- 
fore be  regarded  as  the  finished  work  of  Swift.  That  distinc- 
tion belongs  alone  to  Faulkner's  earlier  editions. 


^Loc.  cit,  Vol.  VII,  p.  98,  note. 

mb  Supra,  p.  55. 

3l8hIn  Seasonable  Advice  to  the  Grand  Jury,  etc.  (Works,  etc., 
1843,  II,  p.  25),  Swift  says: — "A  lawyer  may  pick  out  expressions, 
and  make  them  liable  to  exception,  where  no  other  man  is  able  to 
find  any.  But  how  can  it  be  supposed,  that  an  ignorant  printer  can 
be  such  a  critic?" 


LIST  III 

SOME  WORDS  AND  PHRASES  IN  THE  FAULKNER  TEXT 
THAT  DO  NOT  APPEAR  IN  THE  MOTTE  TEXTS 

The  following  list  shows  most  of  the  passages  in  the 
Faulkner  text  in  which  the  reading  differs  from  that  of  the 
corrected  Motte  text,  involving  changes  that  would  come 
under  class  3.39  Some  unimportant  differences  are  not  in- 
cluded, such  as  the  frequent  substitution  of  the  scriptural 
third  person  singular  of  the  verb  for  the  commoner  form. 

PART  I 

Motte,  1726 40        Motte,  1727  Faulkner,  1735 

Page  Page 

CHAP.  I 

13.19  did  not  hold  half  a  Pint        8.33  hardly  held  half  .  .  . 

CHAP.  II 

33.20  was  looked  upon  to  be      21.16  was  as  much 
as  much 

41.8     was    fastened    to    that      25.32  was  at  the  end  of 
Chain  that  .  .  . 

The  correction  is  weli  made,  for  the  officers  could  not  see  Gul- 
liver's watch  while  it  was  in  his  pocket,  nor  know  whether  anything 
was  fastened  to  the  chain. 

43.12  directed    me,    although       27.9  F.     omits    all    after 
in  very  gentle  terms  "me." 

The  omission  of  the  qualifying  phrase  restores  the  full  authority 
of  command  accorded  the  emperor  in  the  rest  of  this  interview. 

39  Cf.  supra,  p.  44. 

•*o  Where  the  two  Motte  texts  agree,  one  quotation  serves  for 
both.    "Ha."  stands  for  Hawkesworth;    "F."  for  Faulkner. 


64  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

CHAP.  Ill 

56.18  Inch  and  half  35.30  Inch  and  a  half 

The  article  is  generally  used  by  Swift  in  this  connection  {Cf.  Pt. 
I,  20.20;  52.22,  and  93.1). 

60.10  arrived  to  38.5  arrived  at 

"arrived  to"  was  common  in  Swift's  day,  and  was  not  noticed 
by  Ford  in  this  passage  and  in  Pt.  II,  49.6;  but  in  Pt.  Ill,  154.21 
Ford,  both  in  his  list  and  in  his  book,  changes  "arrived  safe  to" 
into  "safe  at."     The  printer  of  the  4th   (8vo)   ed.  uses  "safe  at." 

64.2-12     1724  1728  40.14-22  1724 

This  error  was  overlooked  by  Ford  and  by  Faulkner.  The  latter 
evidently  had  not  seen  the  4th   (8vo)   ed. 

CHAP.  VI 

100.18  he  hath  63.10  they  have  41 

104.8     Eleven  65.14  Seven 

.10  Nurseries  .15  Exercises 

This  substitution  by  F-  avoids  what  Swift  might  have  considered 
tautology,  for  "Nurseries"  occurs  in  the  fifth  line  above.  Dennis 
seems  to  appreciate  Swift's  precept  to  "vary  the  orthography  as  well 
as  the  sound,"  when  in  Pt.  II,  Chap.  VI  (1st  ed.,  p.  Ill),  he  adopts 
the  Faulkner  rather  than  the  Ford  reading  ("what"  for  "several"), 
saying  that  "When  making  this  alteration  Swift  [Ford]  did  not 
notice  that  the  word  'several'  had  already  been  used  in  the  same 
sentence."  The  substitution  of  "Exercises"  in  the  above  passage 
may  be  an  argument  for  Swift's  participation  in  the  Faulkner  text- 
changes.  Cf.  Pt.  Ill,  101.20,  where  Ford  in  his  "list"  says  of 
"Assembly;"  "this  must  have  been  altered,  for  the  word  Assembly 
follows  immediately  after;"  also,  Pt.  IV,  113.22,  where  he  substi- 
tutes "did"   for  "could,"  'because  "could"   follows.' 

106.8(7)   Nine  Years  66.18  seven  .  .  . 

.8         Thirteen  .19  eleven 

For  a  discussion  of  these  changes,  see  supra,  p.  56. 
107.12  Kingdom  67.7  Empire 

The  monarchs  of  Lilliput  and  Blefuscu  were  emperors.  "King" 
or  "Kingdom"  is  used  on  pages  12,  22,  33,  34,  36,  37  and  85.  In 
each  of  these  cases  Faulkner  follows  the  Motte  text. 


41  Cf.  supra,  p.  55. 


THE   FAULKNER  TEXT  65 

114.12  although  71.12  yet 

"Though"  is  used  four  lines  above,  in  the  F.  text.  See  remarks 
on  tautology,  under  104.10. 

.20  although  he  .  .  .  was  .18  .  .  .  were 

were 

The  influence  of  the  1st  ed.  is  seen  here  again.  In  that  edition 
the  tendency  is  to  use  the  subjunctive  after  "whether"  and  "al- 
though," whereas  "was"  is  more  frequent  in  the  4th    (8vo.)   ed. 

CHAP.  VII 

122.3     Shirts  76.18  Shirts  and  Sheets 

128.13  made  80.14  always  made 

"It  was  a  Custom  .  .  .  that  .  .  .  the  Emperor  made  a  Speech." 
The  insertion  of  "always"  introduces  an  unnecessary  if  not  illogi- 
cal qualification,  and  yet  Ha.  follows  F. ! 

131.17  brought  under  my  Arm       82.5  carryed  .  .  . 

Ha.  follows  the  Faulkner  text. 

PART  II 

CHAP.  I 

1.11  ten  Months  Two  .  .  .       93.10  ten  .  .  . 

Another  case  where  Faulkner  follows  the  1st  ed. 
8.4    uppermost  (Step)  97.19  utmost  .  .  . 

18.2  three     Gallons     (small     103.8     two  .  .  . 
Dram-cup) 

Three  gallons  =  96  gills  =  c.  831  cu.  in.  If  we  divide  by  1728 
according  to  the  rule  of  Pt.  I,  Chap.  Ill,  the  capactiy  of  our  mod- 
ern dram-cup  would  be  about  *  cu.  in.  or  1/18  gill.  Either  measure 
appears  to  be  faulty,  and  the  reason  for  the  reduction  is  not  ap- 
parent. 

CHAP.  Ill 

44.3  carry  me  118.20  bring  me42 

60.23  he  seldom  failed  of  a     128.19  .   .   .   smart  Word 

small  Word 
65.22  Creatures  131.13  Insects 


42  Cf.  supra,  p.  57.    Changed  to  "carry"  in  the  F.  ed.  of  1772. 


66  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

CHAP.  IV 

70.11  Houses,  and  about  Six  134.14  Houses   (rest  omit- 

hundred   thousand    In-  ted) 

habitants 

75.  11  and  reckoning  137.8     reckoning 

chap,  v 

83.22  turn  142.21  hop 

"Turn"  occurs  three  lines  above.  Ha.  follows  Faulkner. 

88.16  Half  an  English  mile  145.11  an  English  Mile 

90.14  well  entertained  146.14  agreeably   .   .  . 

94.2     caught  hold  of  148.15  seized 
.4     Cloth  .16  Silk 

Why  should  the  printer,  unprompted,  make  this  change,  which 
depends  upon  a  statement  in  the  middle  of  Chap.  Ill,  twenty-three 
pages  back?    Ha.  here  follows  Faulkner.     So  does  Dennis. 

96.4     three    hundred    Yards     149.23  five  .  .  . 
from  the  Ground 

On  p.  76  in  Chap.  IV,  the  King's  kitchen  is  described  as  a  noble 
building  about  six  hundred  feet  high.  Faulkner  makes  the  side  of 
the  house,  to  the  roof  of  which  the  monkey  carried  Gulliver,  fifteen 
hundred  feet  high,  and  apparently  ignores  the  added  difficulty  we 
should  have  to  raise  a  ladder  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  feet. 

CHAP.  VI 

103.10  that  154.23  who 

107.1     Qualities  of  the  Mind     156.26  ...  of  Mind,  that 

he  was  Master  of  he  .  .  . 

111.15  all  several     159.9     what 

"Memorandums  of  all  Questions  he  intended  to  ask  me."  Ha. 
follows  Faulkner.  Motte  avoids  tautology,  for  "what"  occurs  in 
the  next  line  above. 

112.22  were  always  promoted  .32  were  constantly  .  .  . 

"Always"  is  used  in  the  fifth  line  above. 
116.12  he  asked  me  .  .  .  where     161.33  .   .    .   where  we 

we  should  find  Money  found  .  .  . 

to  pay 


THE   FAULKNER   TEXT 


67 


120.9    Virtue  164.4     Perfection 

"Virtue"  occurs  three  lines  below. 
CHAP.  VII 

126.7     cannon  an  hundred  167.24  two  hundred  .  .  . 

foot  long 

At  12:1  these  would  correspond  to  English  cannon  of  that  period, 
8J  and  17  ft.  long,  respectively.  Ha.  gives  them  as  about  twelve 
feet  (Ibid.,  p.  10). 


130.24  biggest 


170.13  largest  (to  contrast 
with  "large"  in  the 
preceding  line) 

173.5     .  .  .  Ninety  Foot  .  .  . 


135.21  Cavalier  mounted  on 
large  Steed  ...  an 
hundred  foot  high 

For  the  English  prototypes  these  measurements  would  be  8  ft. 
4  in.  and  7  ft.  6  in.  respectively.  An  average  horse  16  hands  high 
(64  in.)  with  a  rider  5  ft.  10  in.  (33  in.  from  the  seat  up)  would 
make  a  total  height  of  97  in.  A  large  steed  might  increase  this 
total  to  8  ft.  4  in.  There  is  no  apparent  reason  for  the  change  of 
text.     Curiously  enough,  Ha.  follows  Faulkner  (Ha.,  p.  180). 

136.23(22)  once  or  more  173.24  more  than  once 


CHAP.  VIII 

146.10  preserve    myself    some     179.4     .    . 

Hours  longer  than  by  bein< 

being 
153.16  He    then     commanded     183.6 

his  Men  to  row  up  to 

that     Side,    and     fast- 

ning  a  Cable  to  one  of 

the     Staples,     ordered 

them 
154.3     Men  .15  Man 


myself    from 


.  .  .  Side ;  and  f ast- 
ning  a  Cable  to  one 
of  the  Staples,  or- 
dered the  Men 


PART  III 

CHAP.  I 

4.6    to  traffick  for  two  192.7 

Months 


"for   two    Months' 
omitted  in  F. 


68  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

5.6     though  he  was  .25  although  he  were 

The  change  is  to   Swift's  usual   language  of   the   1st  ed.     (Cf. 
supra,  p.  65.) 

CHAP.  II 

17.9     two  or  three  more  199.19  two  or  more 

Ha.  follows  the  Motte  editions.  (Cf.  p.  82.) 

20.5     the  King's  201.5     his 

"King"  occurs  five  lines  above. 

CHAP.  Ill 

36.11(10)  This  Declivity  211.3     The  .  .  . 

The  declivity  had  not  previously  been  mentioned. 

CHAP.  V 

74.3     employed  233.9    emptyed 

Ha.  follows  F. 
76.14  Ancestors  234.22  Forefathers 

CHAP.  VI 

86.5     Who  imagine  they  240.25  .   .   .  came  .   .  . 

come  into  the  world 
A  single  act  is  predicated  of  an  individual ;  hence  "came"  is  the 
more  correct. 

CHAP.  VII 

96.23  smaller  small     246.29  small 

This  word  occurs  in  the  last  line  of  a  paragraph  which  would  be 
too  crowded  if  the  longer  form  were  used. 

CHAP.  VIII 

109.12  Gamesters  254.11  Gamesters,    Fidlers, 

Players 
The  addition  of  "Fidlers,"  etc.,  is  in  Swift's  manner. 

111.4  discovered    the    secret     255.11  .  .  .  true  .  .  . 
Causes 

"Secret"  occurs  seven  lines  above   (in  F.) 

114.5  Among  the  rest  257.1     Among  others 
Ha.  follows  Faulkner  (Ha.  p.  268). 


THE   FAULKNER  TEXT  69 

.20  this  .12  the 

115.1     Youth  .16  Boy    (heightens  the 

contrast) 
.2     Libertina  .17  a  Libertina 

A  manumitted  female  slave  was  liberta  or  liberata  with  reference 
to  her  master,  but  she  was  libertina  with  reference  to  the  class  to 
which  she  belonged  after  manumission,  and  the  article  here  desig- 
nates her  as  one  of  a  class. 

.4    Vessels  .19  Vessel 

"Vessel"  is  correct,  for  the  person  had  been  "commander  of  a 
ship." 

CHAP.  IX 

119.3     1711  1709    259.19  1708 

.4     we  sailed  in  the  River     259.19  .  .  .  River  of  .  .  . 

Clumegnig,  which  is  a 

Seaport  town  ("in"  or 

"into"?) 
122.16  have  it  swept  so  clean       261.27  have  it  so  clean 

chap,  x 

144.13  deprived  despised     274.1     despised 

"deprived"  occurs  in  all  the  1726  Motte  eds.  and  is  in  the  signa- 
ture (K)  that  is  identical  in  the  1st  and  2nd  eds.  In  the  Dublin  ed. 
of  1726  (J.  Hyde)  the  correct  word  is  used  —  "despised."  Query: 
Was  this  signature  printed  twice  for  the  1st  ed.  ? 

PART  IV 

CHAP.  I 

8.4  They  had  long  ...  on  their  their  283(5). 10  they 
lank  Hair  in  their  Backs  but  none  had  long  lank 
Faces,  nor  any  on  their  Faces,  Hair  on  their 
thing  more  than  a  nor  any  thing  Heads,  and  only  a 
sort  of   Down  on     more  .  .  .  Sort  of  Down  . .  . 

the   rest   of   their 
Bodies 

The  Ford  correction  reads  "they  had  long  lank  Hair  on  their 
Heads,  but  none  on  their  Faces,  nor  anything  more,"  &c.  Ha.  fol- 
lows  Ford. 


70  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

CHAP.  II 

19.12  They  seemed  292.2     The  last  seemed 

20.13  waited  to  hear  .  .  .  but  .20  .  .  .  but  I  heard 
I  observed 

"observed"  is  used  of  eye  or  ear,  but  since  the  ear  alone  func- 
tioned here,  "heard"  is  an  improvement. 

22.15  whom  293.25  which 

The  reference  is  to  Yahoos,   and  the  change  to  "which"  places 
them  in  an  inferior  order. 

CHAP.  Ill 

38.9  By  all  these  Advan-        302.5     By  all  which  .  .  . 
tages 

"These"  occurs  in  the  third  line  above. 
41.24  in   the   Softness,   and       304.8     in  the  Whiteness 
Whiteness 

42.17  Secret  of        ...  of  my  .22  .  .  .  of  my  having 
having              having 

CHAP.  IV 

48.18  so    perfectly    well    tin-     308.9     F.  adds  "and  so  un- 
derstood iversally   practised" 

The  change  adds  a  "sting."    Swift  had  complained  that  Motte  had 
taken  the  "sting"  out  of  several  passages.    Ha.  follows  Faulkner. 

50.18  to  greater  La-       great     309.14  greater  .  .  .  feed 

bor,  and  fed       .  .  .  fed 
52.12  represent  .  .  resentment  310.12  express  .  .  . 
F's  substitute  avoids  tautology. 
58.2     to  interrupt  me  several     313.15  often 

Times 

CHAP.  V 

62.6     thrice  316.17  five  times 

64.10  Dominions   round   and     317.24  .  .  .  compact 
compleat 

CHAP.  VI 

80.9     weary  themselves,  and     324.8     ...  by  engaging  in 
engage  in 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT 


71 


CHAP.  VII 

99.14  among  us  334(3 14)  .24  with  us 

108.5     undistinguishing  339.24  undistinguished 

108.23  sought  for  with  much     340.3     fought     for     .     .     . 
eagerness  (probably    a    typo- 

graphic error) 
109.7     Dirt  340.9     Mud 

CHAP.  VIII 

117.15(14)  begged  his  Favour       344.12  ...  his  Honour 

Cf.  Pt.  Ill,  151.10,  "entreated  his  Royal  Favour,"  etc.;  also,  Pt. 
IV,  148.14,  "I  had  the  favour  of  being  admitted,"  etc. 

123.17  Having      lived      three     347.32 already 

Years  in  this  Country  lived 

Gulliver's  stay  in  the  country  was  about  3  years  and  9  months,  and 
the  period  to  which  this  quotation  relates  was  not  long  before  his 
departure  thence.  Faulkner's  insertion  of  "already"  is  apparently 
justified. 

128.9     of    a    Rational    Being 

[marriage  at  request  of 

parents] 
129.20  our 


350.15  in  a  reasonable  be- 
ing 


351.7  their    (wrong) 
357.30  it  grows 


as  the  rest :  She 


CHAP.  IX 

140.9  they  grow  {supra,  p. 
56) 

142.21  and  I  observed  she  be-     359.8 

haved    herself    at    our  died  .  .  . 

House,  as  cheerfully  as 
the  rest,  and  died  about 
three  Months  after. 

CHAP   X 

147.4    did  not  find  the  Treach-  362.17  .  .  .  feel  .  .  . 
ery  .  .  .  Inconstancy 

148.10  for  the  sake  of  their  363.7     upon  the  Merit 
Vices  of  .  .  . 

149.9     Where  the  greatest  363.25  Where    (as   I   have 

already  said)    .  .  . 
The  parenthetical  reference  supplied  by  Faulkner  is  to  pp.  296 


72 


GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 


dent  improvement) 


365.11  perhaps  a  little 
more  civilized 


and  340  (Motte,  IV,  27  and  126),  67  and  14  pages  distant,  respec- 
tively. Such  a  reference  is  in  Swift's  manner.  Cf.  Pt.  I,  46.11  and 
88.4;  Pt.  II,  57.8  and  106.10;  Pt.  Ill,  131.14;  Pt.  IV,  118.8,  146.19, 
and  166.3.  Is  it  likely  that  Faulkner,  unprompted  by  Swift,  would 
make  this  change?     Ha.  and  Dennis  follow  Faulkner. 

150.17  his     Honour,     to     my    364.16  F.     omits     "in     all 

great   Admiration,    ap-  Countries"  (an  evi- 

peared    to    understand 

the  Nature  of  Yahoos 

in  all  Countries,  much 

better  than  myself 
152.8     only  a  little     only  a  lit- 

civilized  tie  more 

(Motte  ed.)       civilized 
(Ford) 
"Only"  occurs  five  lines  below. 
CHAP.  XI 

164.15  the   Wind  might  chop     372.13  .    .    .   might   proba- 
about  bly  .  .  . 

The  introduction  of  "probably"  makes  a  redundancy  (Cf.  "Cus- 
tom .  .  .  always,"  supra,  p.  65). 

172.17  as  a  Yahoo  376.31  or  a  Yahoo 

175.14  three  Years    (Cf.  378.16  five  .  .  .  (Cf. 

123.17)  347.32) 

Gulliver's  absence  from  home  on  this  voyage  was  5  years  and  3 
months,  of  which  he  spent  3  years  and  9  months  with  the  Houy- 
hnhnms.  Neither  text  is  literally  correct,  but  according  to  the 
Faulkner  reading,  Gulliver  in  his  conversation  with  the  sea  captain 
may  be  supposed  to  refer  generally  to  the  period  of  his  absence  to 
date.    Ha.  follows  F. 


180.14  Matter  of  Honour 
181.22  Rotherhith    [occurs 
here  only] 

CHAP.  XII 

195.6     unless  a  Dispute  may 

arise 
199.17  to  come  in  my  Sight 


380.28  Point  . 
381.17  Redriff 


389.17  Omission.  Cf.  infra, 

p.  124. 
391.20  to  appear  .  .  . 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT  73 

Enough  running  comments  have  been  made  in  the  above 
table  to  indicate  the  perspicacity  involved  in  the  changes  in- 
troduced by  Faulkner,  which  in  nearly  every  case  constitute 
a  self-evident  improvement  of  the  text,  and  in  some  cases 
are  such  as  no  printer  would  have  the  interest  or  take  the 
trouble  to  make.  Whether  Swift  cooperated  to  make  these 
changes  or  not,  if  he  had  an  opportunity  to  see  and  acquiesce 
in  them,  they  must  be  accepted  as  his  own. 

From  the  admission  made  by  Ford  in  his  letter  of  Novem- 
ber 6,  1733,  to  Swift,  that  the  second  edition  (fourth  8vo. 
edition)  is  much  more  correct  than  the  first,  and  after  our 
examination  of  the  corrections  in  the  Ford  "paper"  (List  I), 
and  conclusion  that  almost  all  of  what  we  may  call  the  typo- 
graphical alterations  sent  by  Ford  to  Motte,  January  3,  1727, 
were  made  in  this  "second  edition,"  it  is  evident  that  the 
24mo.  edition  by  Motte  in  1727  was  published  too  early  to 
benefit  from  these  corrections,  and  that  the  8vo.  edition  of 
the  same  year,  duly  corrected,  was  published  after  the  24mo. 
edition,  and  therefore  is  in  fact  the  fifth  Motte  edition.  If 
this  be  true,  the  24mo.  edition  is  really  the  fourth  Motte 
edition. 

SWIFT'S  COMPLAINTS 

In  the  letter  to  Sympson  Swift's  concern,  unless  it  be 
feigned,  seems  to  be  because  of  the  material  alterations  in 
his  text,  and  not  because  of  the  casual  errors  of  the  com- 
positor, which  one  may  therefore  perhaps  infer  had  already 
been  eliminated  in  the  "second  edition,"  referred  to  by  Ford. 
Of  errors  purely  typographical,  the  only  ones  specified  were 
the  mistakes  in  some  of  the  dates,  that  Swift  affected  to 
criticize.  The  error  "ten  Months"  (1726  editions,  Part  II, 
p.  1)  was  corrected  to  "two  Months"  in  the  edition  of  1727. 
In  the  latter  edition,  Part  II,  p.  2,  the  date  1722  is  very 
evidently  an  accidental  misprint  for  1702;  it  is  correctly 
given  in  all  the  earlier  editions.     In  these  also  the  date  of 


74  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Gulliver's  arrival  in  Luggnagg  is  given  as  April  21,  1711 
(Part  III,  p.  119)  but  is  changed  in  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edi- 
tion to  1709,  which  agrees  with  the  Ford  copy,  although 
Dennis  in  his  text  prints  1708,  and  this  in  his  words  "seems 
to  be  correct"  (Loc.  cit.,  p.  212). 

An  examination  of  the  context  shows  that  Gulliver  was 
taken  up  into  Laputa  about  the  latter  part  of  May,  1707 ; 
that  he  left  Laputa  February  16th  (year  not  stated)  and 
arrived  at  Luggnagg  on  the  21st  of  the  following  April,  i.e. 
in  1708  or  1709  accordingly  as  he  had  been  in  Laputa  nine 
months  or  one  year  and  nine  months.  The  shorter  period 
seems  to  be  the  more  likely.  He  stayed  in  Luggnagg 
three  months  (Part  III,  p.  126),  which  should  fix  his 
departure  thence  at  about  July  21,  1708  or  1709,  instead  of 
May  6,  1708,  as  given  by  Dennis,  or  May  6,  1709,  as  given 
in  the  Motte  text.  Ford's  correction  to  1709  (as  in  the 
fourth  8vo.  edition)  lessens  the  error  but  does  not  cure  it. 

In  Part  III,  at  pp.  154-155,  the  dates  April  16th  and  April 
10th,  ending  the  Laputa  voyage  at  Amsterdam  and  the 
Downs  respectively,  have  been  reversed  by  Dennis  (follow- 
ing earlier  editors)  with  the  remark  that  Hawkesworth  was 
the  first  to  make  the  "obvious  correction."  The  logical 
change  should  seem  to  be  to  alter  the  latter  date  to  April 
20th.  The  two  dates  occur  in  the  text  eight  lines  apart. 
When  the  compositor  set  the  first  he  most  likely  did  not  know 
the  second,  and  a  transposition  of  the  dates  by  him  is  quite 
improbable.  Nor  would  the  author  of  an  imaginary  narra- 
tive be  likely  to  make  a  transposition  of  this  kind,  where  the 
dates  are  only  casual  and  unimportant.  Indeed,  neither 
Ford  nor  Swift  noticed  the  misprint,  even  when  they  were 
looking  for  errors.  Assuming  that  in  the  manuscript  each 
date  had  two  figures,  no  change  of  the  first  can  mend  matters, 
but  by  changing  "10th"  to  "20th"  only  one  figure  is  involved, 
and  the  resulting  statement  is  in  perfect  harmony  with  the 
context. 

Following  the  above,  the  early  editions  say  that  Gulliver's 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT  75 

absence  on  this  trip  was  five  years  and  six  months,  instead 
of  three  years  and  eight  months.  Dennis  calls  attention  to 
this  error. 

The  only  date  in  which  an  error  in  both  the  month  and  day 
may  have  been  made,  in  any  one  case,  is  probably  in  Part 
IV  at  page  two.  Gulliver,  after  having  said  in  Part  IV  that 
he  had  continued  at  home  about  five  months,  i.e.  from  April 
10  (16  or  20?),  1710  (Part  III,  p.  155),  says  that  he  sailed 
from  Portsmouth  on  August  2,  1710,  which  was  less  than 
four  months  later.  To  reconcile  the  two  statements,  the 
latter  date  is  changed  by  Faulkner  to  September  7,  1710,  in 
which  he  is  followed  by  Hawkesworth  and  Dennis,  without 
any  other  authority.  A  simpler  way  to  avoid  an  error  would 
have  been  to  let  the  original  date  stand  and  change  "five" 
months  to  "four,"  or,  to  be  exact,  to  "three  and  a  half." 

In  Part  II,  p.  2,  Gulliver  says  that  on  April  19th  westerly 
winds  began  to  blow  with  violence,  and  continued  so  for 
"twenty  days  together ;"  that  on  May  2nd  there  was  a  perfect 
calm,  and  that  on  the  following  day  a  southern  wind  began 
to  set  in !     This  sounds  like  Robinson  Crusoe. 

In  Part  IV,  on  the  outward  voyage  Gulliver  was  twelve 
days  sailing  from  Portsmouth  to  "Tenariff"  (p.  2),  but  on 
the  return  it  took  him  eleven  days  to  sail  from  Lisbon  to 
the  Downs,  about  half  the  former  distance  (p.  181),  and  no 
comment  is  made  by  him  to  account  for  the  difference.  Per- 
haps none  was  necessary. 

From  these  examples  it  is  evident  that  Swift  did  not  in  all 
cases  check  his  dates,  or  more  likely  that  he  did  not  take  them 
seriously,  and  that  when  he  later  realized  that  he  might  have 
been  careless,  he  humorously  sought  to  shift  the  blame  for 
inconsistencies  to  the  printer  and  the  adjustment  of  them 
to  his  "judicious  and  candid  readers."  It  will  be  remem- 
bered that  Ford  substituted  only  one  date,  and  did  not  make 
that  one  correct. 

The  foregoing  discussion  may  be  briefly  summarized  as 
follows:     The  complaints  of  Swift  in  the  (Ford)   letter  of 


76  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

January,  1727,  were  against  "gross  errors  of  the  press"  — 
typographical  —  for  which  he  suggested  corrections ;  and 
against  corruptions  of  the  text  that  were  evidently  due  to  the 
editor  —  which  he  merely  criticized. 

The  interleaved  copy  of  the  book  went  further.  It  not 
only  "set  right"  the  misprints  covered  by  the  letter,  but  re- 
stored the  "mangled  and  murdered  pages"  that  were  the  real 
subject  of  Swift's  complaints,  if  made  seriously,  in  his  letter 
to  Sympson,  of  April  2,  1727.  Motte  had  the  use  of  the 
January  letter  with  its  list  of  errata,  when  he  prepared  his 
final  edition,  but  there  is  no  evidence  that  he  had  access  to 
the  interleaved  book. 

In  1733  or  later  Swift  was  able  to  locate  and  procure  for 
Faulkner  a  corrected  copy  of  the  book,  the  acknowledgment 
for  which  is  in  Faulkner's  prefatory  "Advertisement."  This 
enabled  Faulkner  to  put  back  into  the  text  the  suppressed 
passages,  much,  we  may  be  sure,  to  the  gratification  of  their 
author. 

That  Swift  would  ask,  or  could  obtain,  of  Motte,  for  the 
benefit  of  a  rival,  the  April  letter  to  Sympson,  even  if  such 
letter  then  existed,  is  in  the  light  of  all  the  facts,  unbeliev- 
able. That  he,  still  under  the  guise  of  Sympson,  was  nego- 
tiating with  Motte  through  Erasmus  Lewis,  on  April  27, 
1727,43  about  the  settlement  for  Gulliver's  Travels,  also  ren- 
ders it  improbable  that  he  had  previously  in  the  same  month 
prepared  for  Motte  so  important  a  document  as  that  letter. 
Swift  wrote  it  for  Faulkner,44  and  in  it,  for  effect,  inserted 
the  fictitious  complaint,  unvoiced  previously  by  himself  or 
Ford,  about  the  misspelling  of  "Brobdingrag."  The  reading 
of  the  proof-sheets  by  Swift  was  a  consistent  conclusion  to 
a  series  of  acts,  whose  purpose  and  result  were  not  only  the 
improvement  of  the  text,  but  the  restoration  of  its  impaired 
vigor,  both  of  which  we  find  embodied  in  the  earlier  Faulk- 
ner editions. 

43  Quoted  by  Dennis,  loc.  cit.,  p.  xv. 

44  Cf.  Sir  Henry  Craik's  Life  of  Swift,  London,  1882,  p.  536. 


THE  FAULKNER  TEXT         77 

OBSOLETE,  OR  FAULTY  ENGLISH 

Beside  text  differences  that  were  due  to  the  early  pub- 
lishers and  to  their  compositors,  a  reconcilment  of  which  has 
been  attempted  in  previous  pages,  some  expressions  are  to 
this  day  found  in  some  editions  of  Gulliver's  Travels,  that 
are  clearly  faulty,  and  others  that  were  in  common  use  by 
prominent  writers  of  Swift's  day,  but  are  not  current  now. 
Although  these  are  really  beyond  the  scope  of  this  article  as 
originally  planned,  they  have  been  thought  worthy  of  listing 
here. 

Of  all  the  editors  of  Gulliver's  Travels,  Thomas  Sheridan 
was  probably  the  most  critical  of  Swift's  language.  Others 
confined  themselves  largely  to  a  discussion  of  the  political 
and  satirical  features  of  the  work,  and  to  an  explan- 
ation of  obscure  passages  in  it.  The  notes  of  Hawkesworth, 
whose  first  edition  appeared  in  1755,  are  quoted  in  many 
subsequent  editions.  The  Hawkesworth  text  in  spite  of 
Hawkesworth's  caustic  criticism  of  Faulkner  {supra,  p.  54) 
appears  to  follow  the  Faulkner  text  often  where  the  latter 
differs  radically  from  that  of  Motte,  but  contains  also  some 
minor  changes  not  found  in  either  of  the  other  two. 

Sheridan,  in  one  of  his  footnotes  (Part  IV,  Chap.  IX) 
says,  "in  many  other  passages  of  these  voyages,  the  author 
[Swift]  has  intentionally  made  use  of  inaccurate  expression, 
and  studied  negligence,  in  order  to  make  the  style  more  like 
that  of  a  sea-faring  man :  On  which  account  they  have 
been  passed  over  in  silence  [by  Sheridan],  where  such  inten- 
tion was  obvious."  i5  This  statement,  if  well  founded,  may 
justify  the  query  in  passing,  "How  far  may  the  language  of 
Gulliver's  Travels  be  quoted  as  an  authority  for  standard 
English  of  Swift's  time?" 

An  examination  of  the  following  excerpts  may  lead  the 
reader  to  infer  that  Sheridan's  statement,  above  quoted,  is  a 

45  The  Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift,  London,  1784,  vol.  vi,  p.  346. 


78  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

good  deal  like  the  Dean's  abandonment  of  certain  matters  to 
the  adjustment  of  his  "judicious  and  candid  readers,"  but 
without  its  humor.  There  seems  to  be  no  rule  by  which  we 
can  distinguish  between  intent  and  negligence  unless  one  be 
derived  from  a  critical  comparison  of  this  work  with  other 
writings  of  Swift.  Some  phrases  have  been  passed  over  by 
Sheridan  that  are  as  open  to  criticism  as  others  amended  by 
him,  and  nothing  in  the  context  seems  to  justify  the  differ- 
ence in  their  treatment. 

Sir  Walter  Scott  has  faithfully  followed  the  text  of  Sheri- 
dan, without  even  adopting  corrections  suggested  in  Sheri- 
dan's notes.  Dennis  appears  to  have  held  pretty  closely  to 
the  Motte  text,  where  he  has  not  introduced  changes  from 
the  Ford  copy  or  from  Faulkner. 


LIST  IV.    EXAMPLES 

In  the  following  list  S.  indicates  Sheridan;  Ha.,  Hawkesworth; 
D.,  Dennis ;  and  F.,  Faulkner.  Suggested  changes  are  in  parentheses, 
and  words  affected  are  in  italics. 

PART  I 

CHAP.  I 

7.21  "in  the  posture  I  lay"  ("in  which  I  lay"). 
18.20  "which   might   have   so    far   rouzed   my   Rage   and 
Strength,  as  to  have  enabled  me  to  break  the  strings" 
("to  enable"). 

The  misuse  of  tenses  in  compound  sentences  was  one  of  the  most 
glaring  (because  illogical)  syntactic  faults  of  the  prominent  writers 
of  Swift's  time.    Cf.  II,  46.11  and  III,  132.12. 

22.24  "that  hang  to  a  Lady's  watch  (Obs.;  "from"). 

CHAP.  II 

33.22  "The  Court  was  under  many  difficulties  concerning 
me.     They  apprehended"  etc. 

A  change  from  the  collective  to  the  individual  idea.  There  is 
nothing  in  the  context  to  indicate  a  design  to  emphasize  the  latter. 
Cf.  Ill,  25.10,  in  this  list;   also,  supra,  p.  56. 

37.18  "and  another  secret  pocket  I  had  no  mind  should  be 
searched"  (S.  "which  I  had"). 

42.19  "Balls  of  the  most  ponderous  Metal  .  .  .  and  required" 
(D.  "requiring"). 

CHAP.  Ill 

52.20  "I  took  Nine  of  these  Sticks,  and  fixing  them  firmly 
in  the  ground  in  a  Quadrangular  Figure,  two  foot  and 
a  half  square,  I  took  four  other  Sticks,  and  tyed  them 
parallel  at  each  Corner." 

"Tyed   to   each   Corner   two   Sticks,   parallel   respectively   to   the 


80  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

adjacent  Sides,  and  to  the  Ground."  The  author  does  not  seem  to 
have  realized  that  only  eight  sticks  were  necessary  to  make  a  sym- 
metrical figure. 

57.13  "four  in  a  breast"  ("four  abreast"). 

CHAP.  IV 

69.13  "But  I  shall  not  anticipate  the  Reader  with  farther 
Descriptions  of  this  Kind,  because  I  reserve  them  for 
a  greater  work"  ("I  shall  not  anticipate  the  De- 
scriptions that  I  have  reserved  for  the  Reader,"  etc.). 

CHAP.  VI 

94.2  "But  their  manner  of  writing  is  .  .  .  neither  from  the 
Left  to  the  Right,  like  the  Europeans;"  etc.  ("like 
that  of  the"  .  .  .). 

Supplying  an  apostrophe  after  "Europeans"  would  also  correct 
the  error. 

101.18  "Parents  are  the  last  of  all  others  to  be  trusted,"  etc. 
(Omit  "others."  Parents  are  in  one  class,  excluded 
from  "all  others.") 

It  is  then  a  contradiction  to  say  that  a  member  of  the  one  class 
is  a  member  of  the  others.  Cf.  note  to  Pt.  II,  20.5,  supra,  p.  82. 
There  is  no  question  here  of  poetic  license,  as  in  "the  fairest  of  her 
daughters  Eve." 

102.15  "The  Clothes  and  Food  of  the  Children  are  plain  and 
simple.  They  are  bred  up  in  the  principles  of  Hon- 
our." 

("The  latter").  When  "They"  is  reached,  the  reader's  mind  goes 
back  and  instinctively  connects  it  with  the  dominant  idea  of  the 
preceding  phrase,  "Clothes  and  Food"). 

108.13  "with  a  Rule  of  an  Inch  long"  (Omit  "of"). 

CHAP.  VII 

116.21  "After  the  common  Salutations  were  over,  observing 
his  Lordship's  countenance  full  of  concern ;  and  en- 
quiring into  the  reason,  he  desired  I   would,"  etc. 
("when  I  enquired"). 
The  Latin  participal  construction  was  common  in  Swift's  day.     A 

number  of  examples  will  be  found  in  this  list.     In  a  letter  from 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  81 

Swift  to  General  Hill,  August  12,  1712,  the  following  passage  oc- 
curs :  "And  the  worst  of  it  was,  that  I  happened  last  night  to  be 
at  my  lady  duchess  of  Shrewsbury's  ball ;  where  looking  a  little 
singular  among  so  many  fine  ladies  and  gentlemen,  his  lordship 
came  and  whispered  me  to  look  at  my  box."  (A  goose  was  drawn 
at  the  bottom  of  a  box  that  had  been  presented  to  Swift.) 

121.1  "he  hath  received  only  verbal  License"  ("oral"). 
A  mistake  made  by  well-educated  people  to-day. 

.20  "setting  fire  on  your  House"  (Obs. ;  "to"). 
.23  "Shoot  you  on  the  Face"  (Obs.;  "in"). 

CHAP.  VIII 

137.10  "I  did  very  much  wonder  .  .  .  not  to  have  heard"  (S. 
suggests  "at  not  having  heard"). 

145.2  "I  underwent." 

Correctly  printed  in  all  editions  before  that  of  Hawkesworth, 
whose  text  was  evidently  followed  by  Sheridan,  who  prints  "I  had 
underwent,"  and  corrects  it  only  in  a  footnote. 

PART  II 

CHAP.  I 

5.17  "In  full  view  of  a  great  Island  or  Continent  (for  we 
knew  not  whether)." 

Archaic  for  "which";  "neither  does  it  much  concern  us  that  are 
musselmans,  whether  party  of  these  infidels  be  right  or  wrong." 
Letters  of  a  Turkish  Spy,  Vol.  8,  B.  Ill   (c.  1680). 

7.15  "it  served  to  the  Inhabitants  only  as  a  foot  Path." 

(Latin  double  dative  construe;  "1853,  Lytton,  My  Novel  X.  XIII. 

How  far  his  reasonings  and  patience  served  to  his  ends,  remains  to 

be  seen.")     Quoted  in  Murray's  Dictionary. 

17.22  "and  fell  to  eat"  ("eating"). 

19.4  "I  trembled  every  limb"  ("in  every"). 

Used  in  the  fourteenth  century.     See  Murray's  Dictionary. 

20.5  (Cat)  "Three  times  larger  than"  ("as  large  as.") 
Does  this  mean  three  times,  more  than  three  times,  or  four  times 

as  large  as  an  ox?    On  page  21  a  mastiff  is  said  to  be  equal  "in 
bulk"  to  four  elephants,  and  a  grey-hound  somewhat  "taller"  than 
the  mastiff,  but  not  so  "large."     Evidently  "large"  is  meant  to  cover 
the  idea  of  bulk  or  volume. 
The  Brobdingnagians  were  probably  as  much  larger  than  Gulliver, 


82  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

as  the  latter  was  larger  than  the  Lilliputians,  and  this  ratio  ex- 
tended respectively  to  all  objects  in  their  several  countries.46  In 
the  case  of  the  Brobdingnagians  we  may  gather  this  from  the 
thickness  of  their  hands  ("not  above  a  Foot,"  II,  16.14)  ;  from  the 
height  of  their  tables  ("Thirty  foot,"  II,  17.15)  ;  and  from  the  state- 
ment that  Gulliver  beheld  his  master's  countenance  from  the  height 
of  sixty  feet  (II,  24.18).  The  Lilliputians  are  described  as  being  not 
six  inches  high  (I,  8.4),  and  they  computed  Gulliver's  height  at 
twelve  times  their  own  (I,  64.9).  The  ratio  in  each  case  was  there- 
fore about  twelve  to  one. 

The  height  of  an  average  domestic  cat,  at  the  front  shoulders, 
may  safely  be  assumed  to  be  not  less  than  9  or  9i  inches,  and  that 
of  its  giant  prototype  at  about  nine  feet.  To  compare  the  latter 
cat  with  an  ox,  in  bulk,  we  may  without  hyper-scrutiny  apply  the 
rule  commended  by  Gulliver  at  the  end  of  the  third  chapter  of  the 
Voyage  to  Lilliput,  and  use  the  cubes  of  their  respective  heights. 
The  cube  of  nine  is  729.  The  cube  of  5  (the  assumed  average 
height  of  an  ox)  is  125.  On  these  assumptions  the  cat  would  be 
nearly  six1  times  as  large  as  the  ox.47  The  advantage  in  this  com- 
parison lies  with  the  cat,  both  as  to  lower  height  and  less  fullness 
of  body,  for  we  have  taken  the  smaller  factor  for  its  height,  and 
have  neglected  to  make  any  allowance  for  the  greater  massiveness 
of  the  ox.  Gulliver's  comparison  being  apparently  faulty,  we  can 
derive  no  light  from  his  computation  as  to  whether  "three  times 
larger"  means  three  times,  or  four  times,  as  large.  We  must  there- 
fore seek  elsewhere  for  a  solution. 

In  the  phrase  "When  two  or  three  more  persons  are  in  com- 
pany" (HI,  17.9),  the  word  "more"  is  to  the  modern  ear  absolutely 
redundant,  and  corresponds  to  "larger"  in  the  phrase  already  under 
discussion,  and  to  "more"  in  the  sentence  "England  .  .  .  was  com- 
puted to  produce  three  times  the  quantity  of  food,  more  than  its 
Inhabitants  are  able  to  consume"  (IV,  83.2).  These  two  words 
may  therefore  justly  be  taken  to  have  no  farther  significance  than 
a  rounding  out  of  the  idea  expressed  in  the  numerals  that  precede 
them.  "Larger  than"  may  then  safely  be  taken  to  mean  "as  large 
as."  Apparently  a  similar  conception  is  conveyed  by  "others"  in 
the  phrase  "Parents  are  the  last  of  all  others"  (I,  101.18). 

25.8  "which  aggravated  my  sorrows  when  I  awaked"  (S. 
corrects  to  "awoke,"  but  the  dictionaries  now  allow 
"awake"  and  "awoke.") 

46  Cf.  Pt.  II,  59.15  and  80.9. 

47  In  passing,  it  may  be  observed  that  a  cat  7  feet  high  would 
b?  three  times  as  large  as  an  ox  5  feet  10  inches. 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  83 

Murray  says,  5,  The  Str.  pa.  pple.  awaken  was  already  in  the  13th 
c.  reduced  to  awake,  and  at  length  became  merely  an  adjective  (most- 
ly predicative),  after  which  a  new  form  from  the  pa.  tense,  awoken, 
later  awoke  was  substituted;  but  the  weak  awaked  is  also  in  com- 
mon use.     (Shakspere  used  only  the  weak  inflexions). 

26.16  "to  recover  my  Breath  and  Loss  of  Spirits"  (Why  not 

"Breath  and  Spirits"?) 
Cf.  Pt.  IV,  106.20. 

CHAP.  IJ 

36.5     "though  it  were  but  of  Half  an  hour"  (S.  "was"). 
Cf.  p.  97  under  114.20;  also  List  III,  p.  68. 
40.23  "Person  of  Quality's  house."  ("house  of  a  Person  of 
Quality"). 

CHAP.  Ill 

43.14  "unsatiable"  ("insatiable";  Cf.  I,  147.2  "for  my  in- 
satiable Desire.") 

"Inordinate  and  unsaciable  covetousnes." 
More's  Utopia,  p.  42  (1551). 

46.11  "I  owed  no  other  obligation  to  my  late  Master,  than 
his  not  dashing  out  the  brains"  ("than  for  his  not  hav- 
ing dashed"). 

49.22  "Phrases  which  I  had  learned  at  the  Farmer's  house, 
and  did  not  suit  the  polite  style  of  a  Court"  ("and 
which  did"). 

The  failure  to  repeat  the  relative  pronoun  in  the  second  of  two 
connected  phrases  where  the  subject  under  discussion  is  the  same 
but  has  a  different  syntactic  value  in  each,  is  common  with  Swift 
and  other  writers  of  his  day.  Examples :  "I  make  bold  to  en- 
close this  letter,  which  your  Grace  may  please  to  read,  and  is  the 
substance  of  what  he  desired  me  to  say."  (Letter  to  Archbp.  King, 
Feb.  22,  1723)  .  .  .  "because  it  requires  few  talents  to  which  most 
men  are  not  born,  or  at  least  may  not  acquire."  (Hints  toward  an 
Essay  on  Conversation) .  This  suppression  of  the  pronoun  may  be 
due  to  a  desire  to  avoid  tautology.  In  Swift's  Complete  Collection 
of  Genteel  and  Ingenious  Conversation,  he  says  "it  is  a  true  mark 
of  politeness,  both  in  writing  and  reading,  to  vary  the  orthography 
as  well  as  the  sound." 

The   verb   "did"    is  in  thought   naturally  connected  by  "and"   to 


84  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

the  preceding   verb   "learned,''   and   the  mind  tends    to   supply  the 
same  subject,  which  produces  a  confusion. 

59.10  "whether  I  were  injured  or  no" 

(S.  This  vulgar  and  ungrammatical  mode  of  expression  has  be- 
come universal,  but  instead  of  "no,"  the  participle  "not,"  should 
be  used.  The  absurdity  of  the  former  will  appear  by  only  repeat- 
ing the  word  to  which  it  refers,  and  annexng  it  to  it,  as  thus  — 
"whether  I  were  injured,  or  no  injured,"  whereas,  "whether  I  were 
injured,  or  not  injured,"  is  good  grammar.) 

62.5     "bestowed  him  to  a  Lady"  (formerly  current). 
63.8  "my  legs  were  not  scalded,  only  my  stockings  and 
breeches  in  a  sad  condition"  ("were  in"). 

An  obvious  effort  to  avoid  tautology. 

Cf.  "I  am  at  a  clergyman's  house  whom  I  love  very  well."  (Swift 
to  Miss  Van  Homrigh,  June  8,  1714.)  .  .  .  "an  account  of  the  print- 
er's death,  who  died  yesterdav."  (Swift  to  Archbp.  King,  July  14, 
1724.) 

CHAP.  IV 

74.3     "a  Servant  on  horseback  would  buckle  my  Box"  (S. 
"on  my"). 

If  the  ommission  of  "on"  was  to  avoid  tautology,  it  seems  to 
modern  ears  to  have  been  an  illjudged  application  of  Swift's  rule. 
A  foot-note  in  Moriarty's  "Dean  Swift  and  his  Writings,"  N.  Y., 
1893,  p.  233,  reads :  "The  voyage  to  the  Houyhnhnms  *  *  *  is  not 
printed,  or  at  any  rate  much  cut  down,  in  the  popular  editions  of 
'Gulliver'." 

The  failure  to  repeat  "is"  in  connection  with  "cut  down" — if  on 
tautological  grounds — makes  the  writer  really  say  what  he  evidently 
did  not  intend. 

The  phrase — "and  place  it  on  a  Cushion" — follows  immediately. 

CHAP.  V 

80.13  "having  been  so  curious  to  weigh  and  measure"  (S. 

"as  to"). 
88.12  "the  great  Jett  d'eau  at  Versailles  was  not  equal  for 

the  time  it  lasted"  (  S.  "equal  to  it"). 
91.21  "was  so  careless  to  let  a  huge  frog"  (S.  "as  to"). 

CHAP.  VI 

109.17  "These    (Bishops)    were   searched   and   sought  out 
through  the  whole  Nation"  (Archaic  use  of  "search.") 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  85 

Cf.  "lest  the  humour  of  searching  and  seizing  papers  should  sur- 
vive." Swift  to  Pope,  Jan.  10,  1721.  Possibly  an  effort  to  avoid 
the  repetition  of  "out."  Murray  says  that  "search"  in  this  sense 
is  now  used  only  with  "out,"  except   (rarely)  poetically. 

110.11  "the  whole  Legislature  is  committed  ("Legislation"). 

118.20  "the  Losses  they  have  received"  (S.  "sustained"). 
120.24  "wringed  and  extorted"  (S.  "wrung"). 

CHAP.  VII 

125.6  "with  such  Violence  and  Speed  as  nothing  was  able 
to  sustain  its  Force."  ("that"  or  "as  that.") 

Murray  quotes  Bacon  (1625)  They  have  such  Powring  Rivers,  as 
the  Rivers  of  Asia  .  .  .  are  but  Brookes  to  them. 

129.24  "And  as  to  Ideas,  Entities  ...  I  could  never  drive  the 
least  Conception  into  their  heads"  (S.  "of  them  in- 
to"). 

130.21  "But  their  Libraries  are  not  very  large;  for  that  of 
the  King's"  ("King"). 

133.14  "the  species  of  Men  were  originally  much  larger" 
("Man"  in  first  edition). 

CHAP.  VIII 

142.6  "while  I  slept,  the  Page  .  .  .  went  among  the  Rocks  to 
look  for  Birds-eggs,  having  before  observed  him 
from  my  window"  ("I  having"). 

Cf.  note  to  Part  I,  116.21,  in  this  list. 
143.14  "and  my  Box  was  tossed  up  and  down  like  a  Sign- 
post in  a  windy  day." 

Dennis  says  that  Hawkesworth  altered  "Signpost"  to  "sign,"  but 
Dennis  adds  that  this  expression  is  "quite  in  Swift's  manner."  Mur- 
ray's Dictionary  quotes'  Addison,  1711  — "When  did  the  Lamb  and 
Dolphin  ever  meet,  except  upon  a  Sign-post?"  These  are  cases  of 
metonymy. 

See  also  The  Century  Magazine  of  September,  1917,  p.  711 :  "Your 
mind  is  like  one  of  those  sign-posts  that  have  only  one  name  on  it" 
(sic)  etc.    Phyllis  Bottome  in  "The  Second  Fiddle." 

144.7  "My  Box,  by  the  weight  of  my  Body,  the  Goods  that 
were  in,  and  the  broad  Plates  of  Iron"  ("My  Box,  by 


86  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

the  weight  of  the  Goods  that  were  in  it,  that  of  my 

Body",  etc.) 
154.7     "he  answered,  that  discoursing  this  matter  with  the 

Sailors  .  .  .  one  of  them  said"  (Latin  participal  con- 
strue. —  "when  he  discoursed.") 
Cf.  Pt.  I,  116.21,  in  this  list. 
157.10  "in  return  of  his  Civilities"  ("for"). 
158.3     "it  (a  tooth)  was  drawn  by  an  unskilful  Surgeon  in 

a  Mistake"  ("by")- 
.14  "by   putting   it   in   Paper,   and   making   it   publick" 

("on"). 
162.1     "was  in  his  return  to  England."     ("in"  may  signify 

"during";  "on,"  "after.") 

PART  III 

CHAP.  I 

4.17  "loaden"  (S.  and  H.  "laden"). 

Common  in   Swift's  day. 

8.22  "small  Provisions"  ("few"?) 

9.12  "the  Disquiets  of  my  mind"  ("Disquiet":  Cf.  Pt.  I, 
72.12.  "Now  in  the  midst  of  these  intestine  Dis- 
quiets.") 

Murray  says  that  in  the  sense  of  a  disturbance,  disquieting  feel- 
ing or  circumstance  this  word  and  its  plural  are  archaic  or  obsolete. 
Used  by  Ld.  Burghley  in  1574.     See  Murray. 

CHAP.  II 

17.9  "when  two  or  three  more  persons  are  in  Company" 
(S.  "when  two,  three,  or  more,"  etc. ;  F.  and  D.  "two 
or  more."    Cf.  Pt.  II,  20.5  in  this  list). 

Hawkesworth  has  "two,  three,  or  more"   (p.  208). 
.23  "Kennel"   ("gutter"). 

19.7  "There  stood  by  him  on  each  side,  a  young  Page, 
with  Flaps  in  their  Hands"  ("with  a  Flap  in  his 
Hand").    Cf.  supra,  p.  56. 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  87 

20.16  "There  was  a  Shoulder  of  Mutton,  cut  into  an  Equi- 
lateral Triangle,"  etc.,  etc. 

This  attempt  to  satirize  mathematicians  has  been  criticized  as 
inaccurate — "mutton  of  two  dimensions."  Prof,  de  Morgan,  in 
Notes  and  Queries,  Second  Series,  VI,  125. 

24.3  "I  observed  such  accidents  very  frequent"  ("were 
very"  or  "to  be  very"). 

25.10  "the  Court  was  now  prepared  to  bear  their  part  in 
what  ever  Instrument  they  most  excelled"  ("Members 
of  the  Court  were,"  Cf.  Pt.  I,  33.22,  and  supra,  19.7). 

All  of  the  English  texts  consulted  have  this  reading. 

27.6  "the  Intellectuals  of  their  Workmen"  (Archaic;  "in- 
tellect"). 

CHAP.  Ill 

44.14  "the  King  hath  two  Methods  .  .  .  The  first  and  the 

mildest"  ("milder"). 
47.5     "neither  the  King  nor  either  of  his  two  elder  Sons  are 

permitted"    ("eldest   (?)    two   Sons  is";  S.  and  D. 

have  "two  eldest  sons,  are"). 

CHAP.  IV 

50.5     "(He)  had  great  natural  and  acquired  Parts,  adorned 

with  Integrity  and  Honour,  but  so  ill  an  Ear  for 

Musick,"  ("was  adorned"  .  .  .  "had  so  ill"). 
52.22  "Town  which  is  about  half  the  bigness  of  London, 

but  the  Houses  very  strongly  built"  ("Houses  are"; 

no  tautology  is  here  involved). 
56.22  "he  doubted  he  must  throw  down  his  Houses"  (Obs. 

for  "feared.") 
59.5     "the  whole  Country  lies  miserably  wast,  the  Houses 

in  Ruins,  and  the  People  without  Food  or  Clothes." 

("Houses  are"). 
A  case  of  anacoluthon,  for  forcefulness. 
CHAP.  V 

62.9  "I  could  not  be  in  fewer  than  five  hundred  Rooms" 
("have  been"). 


88  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

69.8  "and  made  so  violent  a  discharge,  as  was  very  offen- 
sive" ("to  be"). 

74.3  "he  had  employed  the  whole  vocabulary  into  his 
frame"  ("put  into"  or  "employed  in";  Obs.  in  the 
sense  of  "folded  into,"  Lat.  implicare.  F.  and  Ha. 
substitute  "emptied"). 

CHAP.  VII 

96.16  "This  Tribe  marries  only  among  each  other"  ("marry 
only  among  themselves"). 

97.18  "we  .  .  .  entered  .  .  .  between  .  .  .  Guards,  armed  and 
dressed  after  a  very  antick  manner,  and  something 
in  their  Countenances"  ("and  there  was"). 

CHAP.  VIII 

114.5     "Among  the  rest  (H.,  S.,  and  D.  have  "others"). 

CHAP.  IX 

121.3     "I  was  invited." 

In  all  English  editions.     Should  it  be  "visited,"  as  in  the  Paris 
edition  of  1727  (Martin,  p.  238)? 

123.13  "strowed"  (Archaic;  S.  and  H.  "strewed";  D. 
"strowed"). 

CHAP.  X 

127.14  "such  who  are"  ("as"). 

130.7     "I  discovered  my  Admiration  that  I  had  not  observed" 

( Archaic  ;  "surprise" ) . 
132.12  "if  it  had  fallen  to  my  lot  to  have  been  born  a  Struld- 

brugg"  ("to  be"?  Cf.  133.1,  "if  it  had  been  my  good 

Fortune  to  come  into  the  World"). 
The  first  form  may  be  correct,  if  the  expression  "had  fallen  to 
my  lot"  be  considered  as  a  continuing   action   equivalent   to   "had 
been  my  fortune." 

146.17  "in  the  like  circumstances"  ("under").  Murray  says: 
Mere  situation  is  expressed  by  "in  the  circumstances," 
action  affected  is  performed  "under  the  circum- 
stances." 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  89 

CHAP   XI 

152.1     "in  this  Point"  ("on"). 

2.  "whether  I  was  a  real  Hollander  or  no"  (not"). 
Cf.  supra,  II,  59.10. 

PART  IV 

CHAP.  I 

2.23  "which  was  the  cause  of  his  Destruction,  as  it  hath 
been  of  several  others"  ("of  that  of;"  or  add  apos- 
trophe after  "others"). 

3.1     "he  might  have  been  safe  at  home  ...  at  this  time" 
("be"). 
.4     "I  had  several  men  died  in  my  ship"  ("die,"  or  "that 
died"). 

5.5  "letting  me  put  on  my  best  suit  of  Cloaths  .  .  .  and  a 
small  bundle  of  Linnen"  (S.  and  H.,  "and  take"). 

6.4     "and  consider  what  I  had  best  to  do"  (S.  "best  do"). 

7.14  "the  rest  of  their  bodies  were  bare"  (S.  "was"). 

9.22  "Leapt  up  in  the  Tree"  (H.,  S.,  and  D.,  "into"). 
10.4     "I  observed  them  all  to  run  away"  ("run"). 
16.13  "but  reducing  it  to  the  English  Orthography,  may  be 
spelt  thus"  ("it  may,"  or  "we  may  spell  it"). 

CHAP.  II 

21.20  "The  mare  .  .  .  gave  me  a  most  contemptuous  look; 

then  turning  to  the  Horse,  I  heard  the  word  Yahoo." 

("she  turned  to  the  Horse,  and  I  heard"). 
Cf.  I,  116.21,  in  this  list. 
26.8     "I  .  .    expressed  a  desire  to  let  me  go  and  milk  her" 

(H.  and  S.,  "desire  to  go  and  milk  her."     Why  not 

"that  he  would  let  me,"  etc.?). 
30.2     "It  was  at  first  a  very  insipid  diet,  .  .  . :  and  having 

been  often  reduced  to  hard  fare  in  my  life,  this  was 

not  the  first  experiment  I  had  made"   ("because  I 

had;"  Cf.  supra  21.20). 


90  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

CHAP.  Ill 

34.23  "were  qualities  altogether  so  opposite  to  those  ani- 
mals" 

H.  omits  "so;"  S.  gives  "which  were  qualities  altogether  opposite 
to  such  as  belonged  to  those  animals."  Why  not  "altogether  opposite 
to  the  qualities  of  those  animals"? 

35.17  "writ  the  words"  (Archaic;  common  in  Swift's  day). 
36.9     "my  Head,  Hands  and  Face,  that  were  only  visible." 

(S.  "which  only  were  visible.") 

38.18  "my  Body  had  a  different  covering  from  others  of 
my  Kind"  ("those  of  others;"  or  add  apostrophe 
after  "others"). 

CHAP.  IV 

47.9     "because    doubting   or    not   believing,    are   so   little 

known"   ("is"). 
All  editions  consulted,  including  even  Sheridan,  follow  Motte ! 

49.21  "But  he  insisted  in  commanding  me"  (S.  suggests 
"persisted  in  commanding"). 

Why  not  "insisted  and  commanded?" 

57.22  "under  a  necessity"   (D.  "the"). 

chap,  v 

64.1  "It  is  a  very  justifiable  cause  of  War  to  invade  a 
Country  after  the  People  have  been  wasted  by  Fam- 
ine"   ("and  invasion  of  a  Country  after"). 

64.6  "It  is  justifiable  to  enter  into  War  against  our  near- 
est Ally,  when  one  of  his  Towns  lies  convenient  for 
us,  or  a  Territory  of  land,  that  would  render  our 
Dominions  round  and  compleat."     ("or  is") 

65.13  "There  are  likewise  a  kind  of"  (F.,  S.  and  O.  "is"). 
Whately  in  his  Logic  justifies  "these  Kind." 

67.5     "dying  Groans"  ("Groans  of  the  dying"). 

77.4  "this  Society  hath  a  peculiar  Cant  and  Jargon  of 
their  own  (S.  "has"  —  "their."  Should  be  "hath" 
—  "its,"  or  "have"  — "their"). 


FAULTY   ENGLISH  91 

CHAP.  VI 

81.24  "his  Honour  was  still  to  seek"  (Means  "not  fully 
informed"). 

81.25  The  text  that  includes  the  preceding  quotation,  be- 
ginning with  line  14,  runs  as  follows :  Gulliver  is 
explaining  that  "the  Rich  Man  enjoyed  the  Fruit 
of  the  Poor  Man's  Labour  . .  .  that  the  Bulk  of  our 
People  were  forced  to  live  miserably  ...  to  make  a  few 
live  plentifully  .  .  .  But  his  Honour  was  still  to  seek: 
For  he  went  upon  a  supposition  that  all  Animals  had 
a  Title  to  their  share  in  the  Productions  of  the  Earth, 
and  especially  those  who  presided  over  the  rest." 

This  is  the  reading-  in  all  English  editions  examined,  and  it  has 
escaped  criticism  by  the  commentators.  The  Abbe  Desfontaines  be- 
lieved that  the  author's  meaning  was  reversed.  His  translation 
runs  as  follows :  "si  quelques-uns  y  pretendent  un  droit  plus  par- 
ticulier,  ne  doit-ce  pas  etre  principalement  ceux  qui  par  leur  travail 
ont  contribue  a  rendre  la  terre  fertile?"  The  text  of  the  Hague 
French  edition  (Gosse,  1727),  follows  the  English  version. 

83.4  "three  times  the  quantity  of  Food  more  than  its  In- 
habitants are  able  to  consume"  ("more  than"  is  prob- 
ably redundant). 

85.6     "the  Building  and  Furniture  of  my  House  employ 

as  many  more,  and  five  times  the  number  to  adorn 

my  Wife."      ("number  are  employed;"  another  case 

of  anacoluthon). 

Should  "Furniture"  be  "furnishing"?     Cf.   "Legislature,"   Pt.  II, 

110.11. 

88.13  "these  Artists  ingeniously  considering"  ("consider." 
S.  notes  that  "These  artists"  is  a  nominative,  without 
any  verb). 

96.3  "my  Birth  was  of  the  lower  Sort,  having  been  born 
of  plain,"  etc.      ("I  having"). 

Cf.  Pt.  I,  116.21,  in  this  list. 
CHAP.  VII 

99.4  "I  began  ...  to  think  the  Honour  of  my  own  Kind 


92  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

not    worth    managing"    (equivalent    to    "maintain- 
ing"?). 
101.3     "for  Brevity  Sake." 

Euphony  does  not  require  the  omission  of  the  possessive  sign  with 
"Brevity,"  as  with  "conscience,"  etc. 

106.19  "which  when  his  Yahoo  had  found,  he  presently  re- 
covered his  Spirits  and  good  Humour,  but  took  care 
to  remove  them  to  a  better  hiding-place."  ("the 
stones"). 

111.6  "his  Successor,  at  the  Head  of  all  the  Yahoos  .  .  . 
come  in  a  Body"  (S.  "all  the  Yahoos  .  .  .  with  his 
successor  at  their  head,  come  in  a  body,"  etc.). 

114.7  "who,  if  they  were  forced  to  undergo  the  same  reg- 
imen, I  would  undertake  for  the  Cure."     ("and,  if"). 

S.  notes  the  error,  but  suggests  no  correction ;    a  case  of  anaco- 
luthon. 

115.9  "Speculation,  which  he  had  drawn  from  what  he 
observed  himself,  or  had  been  told  him  by  others" 
(Omit  "him,"  or  write  "or  others  had  told  him"). 

CHAP.  VIII 

119.18  "the  stink  was  somewhat  between  a  Weasel  and  a 
Fox"   ("between  those  of"). 

123.17  "Having  lived  three  Years  in  this  Country,  the  Read- 
er I  suppose  will  expect"  ("I  suppose  the  Reader"). 

CHAP.  IX 

140.7  "They  have  a  kind  of  Tree,  which  .  .  .  loosens  .  .  . 
and  falls  .  .  . ;  they  grow  very  strait,  and  being  point- 
ed like  stakes  with  a  sharp  Stone,  (for  the  Houy- 
hnhnms  know  not  the  Use  of  Iron)  they  stick  them 
erect  in  the  Ground"  ("these  Trees  grow  very  strait, 
and  are  stuck  into  the  Ground  when  they  are  pointed 
like  Stakes  with  a  sharp  stone,  for  the  Houyhnhnms 
know  not  the  Use  of  Iron;")  D.  "it  grows."  Cf.  su- 
pra, p.  56. 

141.10  "cut  their  Hay,  and  reap  their  Oats,  which  there 
groweth"  ("grow"). 


FAULTY  ENGISH  93 

142.2  "Regret  that  he  is  leaving  the  World,  any  more  than 
if  he  were  upon  returning  home"  ("upon  his  re- 
turn"). 

CHAP.  X 

146.5  "of  several  Birds  I  had  taken  .  .  .,  and  were  ex- 
cellent Food"  (S.  "and  which"). 

Sheridan  says  that  the  sentence  of  which  this  is  a  part  is  other- 
wise faulty.  It  might  be  amended  to  read  as  follows :  "My  Master 
had  ordered  to  be  made  for  me  after  their  manner,  about  six  yards 
from  the  House,  a  Room,  the  Sides  of  which  I  plaistered  with  Clay 
and  the  Floors  I  covered  with  Rush-matts  of  my  own  contriving . . . 
of  several  Birds  .  .  .  which  were  excellent  Food." 

154.3  "That  such  a  practice  was  not  agreeable  to  Reason 
or  Nature,  nor  a  thing  ever  heard  of  before  among 
them."     (F.,  S.,  and  D.,  change  "nor"  to  "or"). 

155.5     "He  doubted  it  would  be  impossible  for  me  to  swim 

to  another  Country"  (Obs.  for  "was  afraid"). 
159.16  "converse  in  that  Element." 

Swift  often  uses  "converse"  in  the  sense  of  "being  familiar  with." 
Cf.  Stone,  ed.,  1727,  p.  131,  "Law  was  a  science  I  had  not  been  con- 
versant in;"  also,  Motte,  Pt.  Ill,  26.9,  "conversant  in  Lines  and 
Figures." 

CHAP.  XII 

196.16  "To  lament  the  Brutality  of  Houyhnhnms"  ("to;" 
an  unusual  use  of  the  objective  genitive). 

MAPS 

The  maps  that  accompany  the  text  of  Gulliver's  Travels 
were  probably  prepared  by  the  publisher  without  any  re- 
sponsibility on  the  part  of  the  author.  This  is  pointed  out 
by  Sir  Henry  Craik,  and  Dennis  calls  attention  to  the  dis- 
crepancy in  the  map  of  Brobdingnag.  For  two  hundred 
years  one  other  map,  at  least,  has  been  copied  with  all  of  its 
original  errors,  and  where  not  in  facsimile,  often  with  oth- 
ers added.  On  Plate  III  which  accompanies  the  Voyage  to 
Laputa,  Balnibarbi  appears  to  be  an  island  due  east  of  Japan, 


94  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

with  the  island  of  Luggnagg  between  the  two,  southeast  of 
Japan  and  southzvest  of  Balnibarbi.  On  page  94,  Pt.  Ill, 
Luggnagg  is  said  to  be  northwest  of  Balnibarbi,  and  south- 
eastward of  Japan.  Either  the  text  or  the  map  is  wrong. 
On  page  52  the  text  says,  "the  Continent  as  far  as  it  is  sub- 
ject to  the  Monarch  of  the  Flying  Island,  passes  under  the 
general  name  of  Balnibarbi"  —  shown  on  the  map  as  an 
island]  According  to  the  text  (p.  95)  Maldonada  is  a  port 
in  Balnibarbi,  and  the  island  of  Glubbdubdrib  is  southwest 
of  the  latter ;  on  the  map  Maldonada  is  indicated  as  on  Lugg- 
nagg, instead  of  on  Balnibarbi,  and  Glubbdubdrib  is  south- 
west of  Luggnagg. 

The  suggestion  may  be  made  that  if  this  plate  be  revised 
for  future  editions,  the  town  of  Lindalino  and  the  river  that 
flows  through  it  should  be  shown  on  or  in  Balnibarbi  — 
which  the  publishers  of  the  recent  Bohn  edition  have  over- 
looked. 


APPENDIX 

In  List  I,  below,  are  given  some  text  differences  found 
in  the  first  and  fourth  (8vo.)  Motte  and  in  the  Faulkner 
editions  respectively,  together  with  the  Ford  corrections  in 
full,  as  they  are  found  in  his  "paper,"  the  postscript  of  the 
letter  to  Motte,  of  January  3,  1727,  and  those  in  the  "book," 
indicated  respectively  by  P  and  B,  where  not  found  in  both. 
In  List  II  are  the  substitutes  for  the  passages  suppressed  by 
Motte  and  restored  by  Faulkner  from  a  copy  of  the  "book." 

In  Ford's  copy  of  the  "book,"  there  are  fourteen  inserted 
leaves  —  in  Parts  III  and  IV.  Seven  of  them  are  still 
totally  blank.  They  are  in  pairs,  and  the  matter  to  be  re- 
stored from  them  varies  from  a  few  lines  to  six  and  a  half 
pages,  the  total  amounting  to  about  twelve  pages.  When 
Ford  said  in  his  "paper,"  against  p.  69,  Part  IV,  the  place 
where  in  his  "book"  he  crosses  out  six  and  a  half  pages : 
"You  ought  in  Justice  to  restore  these  twelve  Pages  to  their 
true  Reading,"  he  must  have  quoted  the  number  from  mem- 
ory or  have  had  in  mind  the  total  of  the  substitutions. 

The  passage  added  by  Dennis  near  the  end  of  Chap.  Ill, 
Part  III  (p.  47,  Motte),  is  found  on  the  verso  of  a  leaf  that 
faces  page  91.  There  are  three  other  cases  of  misplacement 
—  "references  backward  and  forward" —  as  Ford  put  it. 


LIST  I 


TYPOGRAPHICAL  ERRORS  FROM  THE  "PAPER" 

PART  I 

Motte  1st  Ed.    Ford's    "Pa-      Motte  4th        Faulkner  1735 
1726  per"48  (8vo.)   Ed. 

1727 
vi.5  Country  Country  vii.10  Country 

"Nottinghamshire,  his  native  Country"  —  in  all  editions.  Is  this  a  mis- 
print for  "County,"  or  is  it  intentional,  to  avoid  tautology?  In  the  next 
paragraph  the  reference  to  Oxfordshire  is  "in  that  County."  (Cf.  1st  ed., 
Pt.  Ill,  137.14,  and  2nd  ed.  Pt.  IV,  67.13  where  "Country"  is  wrongly 
printed  "County".    Cf.  R.  Crusoe,  II,  6,  2nd  par.,  1st  and  2nd  eds.) 

5.7  Northwest    Northward  3.29  Northwest 

A  glance  at  a  map  of  Oceania  will  show  that  "Northwest"  is  the  more 
correct. 

15.12  advanced    .  .  .  forward         9.34.   .   .   for- 

forwards  wards 

Note  the  redundancy  (Cf.  Pt.  IV,  6.1,  1st  and  4th  eds.). 

22.13  Use  Uses  Uses  14.7  Use 


CHAP.  II 

36.11  of   Coun-  of  his  .  . 
cil 
41.20  he  as-  

sured 


of  his  .  .  .  23.2  of  his  .  . 

he  assures        26.8  he  assured 


CHAP.  Ill 

50.18(19) 
Purple 
.19(20) 


Blue  (B)  Purple 

Red  .  .  .  Green    Yellow 


32.13  Blue  . 
Red 
.14  Green 


48  Beside  the  following  changes,  "mine"  before  "eyes"  and  "ears"  was 
changed  to  "my"  by  Ford  in  every  case  but  one,  and  that  one  he  probably 
overlooked. 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS  97 

Yellow   ...       (B)  White 

White 
51.18(20)  Pur-  Blue  (B)  Purple  32.33  Blue 

pie 
51.19(20)  Red  (B)  Yellow  .33  Red 

Yellow 
.20(21)  Green  (B)  White  33.1  Green 

White 

The  colors  given  by  Ford  represent  those  of  the  Garter,  the  Bath  and 
the  Thistle  respectively. 

CHAP.  V 

79.8    binding  bending  49.20  binding 

.17  arrived  ...  at  ...  at  49.28  ...  to 
to 

80.23  bold  boldest  boldest  50.20  boldest 

CHAP.  VI 

107.15  Domes-       Domesticks         67.9     Domes- 
tick  tick 
"Domestick"  is  here  used  as  equivalent  to  "a  household." 

111.19  Exchequer  Bills  would  not  circulate  under  nine  per  Cent. 
below  Par;  so  printed  in  all  editions  consulted.  Should  be 
"above  nine  per  Cent,"  etc. 

114.20  although     although  71.18  although 

he  were  he  was  he  were 

See  note  to  Part  III,  5.6,  List  III,  p.  68. 

CHAP.  VII 

130.12  acquitted    quitted  81.14  acquitted 

CHAP.  VIII 

141.14  Princes       Princess  88.24  Princes 

Cf.  69.8;  and  110.20,  "Princes  of  the  Blood  of  both  Sexes." 

144.5    I   left         I  had  left  I  had  left  90.8  I  left 

145.8    Lilliput       Blefuscu  Blefuscu  .31  Blefuscu 


98 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


PART  II 

CHAP.  I 

3.19  hulling        hurlling*  94.32  hulling 

7.21  the  end       this  end  of  the     97.13  the  end 

of  this  of  this 

9.14  I  made      However,  I  . . .    However,  I  . . .   98.12  However, 

I... 

12.8  shall  should  99.33  shall 

CHAP.  II 

30.7  toward  forward  forward  110.6     towardly 

Cf.  Pt.  I,  147.19,  "a  towardly  Child." 
32.13    Field        Fields(B)  field  111.23  Field 

Ford's  correction  overlooked  or  disregarded  by  Faulkner. 
39.20  the  Town their  Town        115.34  the  Town 

CHAP.  Ill 

47.2    would         perhaps  would     perhaps  would  120.25  would 
48.24  had  and  had  and  had  121.27  had 

65.22  Creatures  Insects  (B)         Creatures  131.13  Insects 

CHAP.  IV 

71.23  English      European(B)      English  135.6    European 
74.4  buckle  my    buckle  my          136. 16 buckle  my 

Eleven  lines  above,  "buckle"  is  used  with  "about  his  Waste   (Waist)." 
Dennis  inserts  "on." 

CHAP.  V 

93.9  not  stir-       stirred  not         148.1    not  stir- 

ing  ring 

98.11  Honour      Courage  Courage  151.1  Courage 

CHAP.  VI 

108.4  Praise         Praises  Praises  157.13  Praise 

111.15  all               several  several  159.9    what 

116.14  charge-       .  .  .  extensive    162.1    .  .  .  ex- 
able  and  ex-  tensive 
tensive 
Dennis  has  "expensive"  which  is  synonymous  with  "chargeable." 


THE   FORD   CORRECTIONS 


99 


120.11  were  are  are  164.6  are 

.13  were  are  are  .7  are 

123.20  Monarch  mighty...  (B)  Monarch  166.12   Monarch 

In  this  chap.  Gulliver  speaks  deprecatingly  of  the  king,  and  the  omission 
of  "mighty"  seems  appropriate.    Ha.  follows  Faulkner. 

CHAP.  VII 

133.3    from  from  the 

133.14  Species     .  .  .  Men 
of  Man 


134.7     several       

moral 

Cf.  134.12  "Lectures  in  Morality." 
136.21  the  


from  the 
.  .  .  Men 

several  more 


the 


CHAP.  VIII 

140.15  not  di-       just  not  directly 
rectly 

Ford's  "paper"  says,  "the  Sense  is  imperfect." 
149.7     was  is 

156.16  own  Pre-  Presence  Presence 
sence 

161.1  necessary     .  .  .  for  me  .  .  .  for  me 


171.20  from 
171.29.  .  .  Man 

172.9     several 
moral 

173.23  that 

175.29  not  di- 
rectly 

180.24  was 
184.31  Presence 

187.11  ...forme 


PART  III 

CHAP.  II 

17.9   two  or        two  or  three     199.19  two  or 

three  more  more  more 

See  List  IV,  Pt.  II,  20.5. 
31.15  Spirits         Sprites      (in        Sprites  207.18  Sprites 

margin  of 

Ford  copy) 

The  same  phrase,  "Sprites  and  Hobgoblins,"  used  in  early  editions  of  a 
"Tale  of  a  Tub"  has  been  similarly  corrupted  in  later  editions.  As  cor- 
rected, it  better  expresses  an  antithesis.  Hawkesworth  follows  the  1st 
Motte  ed.    (p.  217). 


100 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


34.5    Women-     Womankind        women  kind      208.32  Woman- 
kind kind 
42.17  the             their                     their                   214.20  their 

"Goodness.     For  this  Advantage  &c  the  Sense  imperfect."     (P) 

CHAP.  Ill 

36.13    Cause 
43.4  his 
44.19  Death 
49.13  here 
59.16  Act 


CHAP.  V 

71.23  both 
73.10  or 
74.8  in  the 

Book 
75.15  other 

77.7    Saddles 
78.4  the 
83.6(5)  method 
85.11010)   dis- 
pose of  them 
86.7(5)    come 
87.15(12)  Per- 
sons 


Dearth 

there 

act(P) 

Books 

as 

in  Books 

other  Project 
(B) 
Sacks 
thus 
methods 
dispose  them 

came  ( B ) 
Person's 


course 

the 

Dearth 

there 

act 

Books 

as 

in  books 

other 

Sacks 
thus 
methods 
dispose  them 

come 
person's 


.5  Cause 

214.27  his 
215.26  Dearth 
218.24  there 
224.21  act 

231.33  Books 

232.28  as 
233.12  in  Books 

234.5  other 

235.2    Sacks 
235.18  thus 

238.34  Methods 
240.10  dispose 

them 
.25  came 
241.16  Person 


CHAP.  VI 

88.23(20)  of       for  242.7    of 

89.7(4)  take        to  take  to  take  .12  to  take 

"P.  90  to  the  end  of  the  Chapter  seems  to  have  much  of  the  Author's 
manner  of  thinking,  but  in  many  places  wants  his  Spirit."  (P) 

93.11(5)  into      in  244.10  into 

.16  North- West.    See  notes  on  maps,  p.  94. 


THE   FORD    CORRECTIONS 


101 


CHAP.  VII 

94.7  was  is 

101.5    in  into 

.20  See  List  II. 
102.20  Ancestors  Ancestor 


CHAP.  VIII 

110.4    Faction 

CHAP.  IX 

119.3    1711 
.12  in  a 
121.6    they  nev- 
er 


Factions 

1709 

in  the 

they  had  never 


is 
into 

Ancestors 
Factions 


245.5  is 
249.8    into 

251  (250) .5   An- 
cestor 

254.25  Factions 


1709  259.19 1708 

in  the  .25  in  the 

they  had  never  260.34  they  had 
never 


chap,  x 

133.24  Lan-  Language 

guages 
.25  Fashions,   Fashions  of  .  .  . 

Dress 
134.14  Choice       choice(P) 

137.14  County       

.18  these  those 

138.6    eldest  oldest 

140.2    were  they  were 

141.18  come  comes 

142.20  continu-      continue 

ing 

A  change  in  the  punctuation  would 
.22  forgot       forget 
143.22  youngest :  in  all  editions. 

two  hundred  years  they  could 
144.1    brought      brought  to  me 

me 
.14  sort  sorts 


Language 

Fashions  of 

choice 

Country 

those 

oldest 

they  were 

comes 

continue 


268.4    Lan- 
guages 

.5  Fashions, 
Dress 
268.16  choise 
270.4  Country 
.7  those 
.18  oldest 
271.19  they  were 
272.16  comes 
273.3    continue 


make  the  participial  form  correct, 
forget  273.4    forget 

Should  be  "oldest" ( ?).     After 
hold  no  conversation, 
brought  to  me  273.24  brought 

to  me 
sorts  274.1    Sorts 


102 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


CHAP.  XI 

152.21  conver 
154.3    petform- 

ed 
.21  safe  to 
155.11  and 

found  my 


convey 
performed 

safe  at 


convey 
performed 

safe  at 
and  my 


279.12  convey 
280.1  performed 

.14  safe  at 

.25  and 
found  my 


PART  IV 

CHAP.  I 

2.4    Adven-       Adventure        281.13  Adven- 
ture ture 
Dennis  prints  "Adventurer,"  possibly  to  distinguish  this  ship  from  the 
one  in  which  Gulliver  sailed  on  his  second  voyage  (Pt.  II,  2.2). 

8.1    in  sharp      .  .  .  and  hooked    .  .  .  and  hooked  283.5(7)  on(sic) 


points,  hooked 

.6(5)  on  their  on  their 
Faces,  nor  any  Heads  49  but 
thing  more         none  on  their 
than  a  sort  of   Faces,  nor  any 
12.20  Com-  

mands.     But 

concealing 
17.2  them  him 


sharp     Points, 
hooked 
on  their  Backs  283 (5).  10       on 


but  none  on 
their  Faces, 

nor  any 

Commands. 

But . . . 

him 


CHAP.  II 

31.12  fare 


fared 


far'd 


CHAP.  Ill 

35.16  formed        in 

.  .  .  into 

"I  formed  all  I  learned  into  the  English  Alphabet.' 
42.18  having       my  . . .  my  . . . 

45.12  Word  word  and 

and  Honour  honour 


their      Heads, 
and     only     a 
Sort  of 
287.30  Com- 
mands ;   but . . . 

290.7  him 
298.19  fare 
300.25  into 


304.22  my... 
306.3    Word 
and  Honour 


49  Ford's  "paper"  reads :     "This   passage  puzled  me   for  some  time,  it 
should  be  'long  lank  Hair  on  their  Heads',"  etc. 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS 


103 


The  same  expression  occurs  at  p.  177.9  in  the 
1st  ed.  there  reads  "Word  of  Honor."  Apparently 
current. 

.18  myself         himself 

CHAP.  IV 


4th   (8vo.)   ed.,  but  the 
both  expressions  were 

306.7    myself 


49.6    when 

where 

where 

308.20  where 

For  3  changes  ir 

i  the  L.  P.  copies 

see  supra,  p.  28,  note. 

51.7    meanest 

weakest 

weakest 

309.25  meanest 

.10  rouling 

rolling  on 

rolling  on 

.27  rouling 

on 

upon 

53.4  Office 

Offices 

Offices 

310.25  Offices 

54.12  my 

one  of  my 

one  of  my 

311.16  one  of  my 

55.11  the 

that(B) 

the 

.34  the 

56.11  is 

it  is 

it  is 

312.19  is 

.15  Queen 

a  Queen 

a  Queen 

.22  Queen 

CHAP.  V 

60.10  of  which 

which 

which 

315.9    which 

63.1  or  a  Virtue 

or  Virtue 

316.32  or  a  Vir- 

tue 

64.2  Cause  of 

...  a  War 

317.17  .  .  War 

War 

See  List  IV,  p.  90. 

.7    when        where  (B) 

when 

317.22  when 

65.6   those 

these 

these 

318.6    these 

.13  are 

is(B) 

are 

318.11  is 

.13   another 

a 

a 

.11  a 

See  List  II,  p.  114. 

67.1     Bayonets, 

Bayonets, 

Bayonets, 

319.3    Bayonets, 

Sieges 

Battles  (B) 

Sieges 

Sieges 

"Sea  fights;  is  there  no  mention  of  Land  fights?" 

(P) 

68.16  my  Hoof 

his  Hoof 

his  Hoof 

.34  his  Hoof 

69.      See  List  II, 

Note  53,  p.  117. 

CHAP.  VI 

81.12  or  to 

or  save 

325.2    or  to 

save 

save 

104 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


85.1    and 

or 

or 

327.2    or 

86.3    operated 

operated 

operated 

.23  operated 

the  one  con- 

contrary .  . 

contrary  .  . 

contrary  .   . 

trary  to  each 

other 

87.18  Bones, 

Bones,  (B) 

Bones, 

328.19  Bones, 

Beasts 

Birds,  etc. 

Beasts 

Beasts 

88.12  inferior 

inferior 

inferior 

.33  inferior 

posterior 

Posterior 

"Part  of  P.  90  &  91  false  and  silly,  infallibly  not  the 

same  Author."  (P 

92.2    makes 

made(B) 

makes 

310(330)  .4 
makes 

.12  Way  to 

way  of 

.12  way  to 

"93.  at  last  by  an  Act  of  Indemnity,  abrupt."  (P) 

"P.  97  a  great  Man.  Nonsence.  the  author  is  not  talking  of  great  Men, 
but  of  Men  highly  born.  I  believe  it  should  be  of  a  Noble  Birth,  or  rather 
Marks  of  Noble  Blood.  I  take  this  Page  to  be  likewise  corrupted,  from 
some  low  Expressions  in  it."  (P) 


CHAP.  VII 

99.3    enlight- 

enlarged 

enlarged 

314(334). 16 

ened 

enlarged 

109.2    and  it 

and  it  pro- 

and it  pro- 

340.4 It  pro- 

produced 

duced  in  them 

duced  in  them 

duced 

.6   chatter 

chatter,  and 

chatter 

.7  chatter, 

reel(B) 

and  roul 

.23  taken 

known  to  have 

known  to  have 

.22  known  to 

myself 

been  taken 

been  taken 

have  been  tak- 

with success 

with  Success 

en  with  Success 

112.8    with 

with  the 

with  the 

341.33  with  the 

113.2    the  Arti- 

the last  Arti- 

the last  Arti- 

342.12 the  last 

cle 

cle 

cle 

article 

.22  could 

did 

did 

.27  did 

"Could  follows.' 

*(P) 

114.5    discover 

plainly  dis- 

discover 

.33  plainly 

cover  (B) 

discover 

THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS 


105 


CHAP.  VIII 

121.5    scratch 

search 

search 

346.21  search 

127.1    again,  or 

again.     Or 

again,  or 

349.24  again ;  or 

.3    bestow 

bestow  him(B) 

bestow  him 

.26  bestows 

on  him 

on  him 

"bestow  on  him 

one  of  their  own  Colts."    Ford's  expression  is  unusual, 

but  correct. 

130.5    hard  and 

hard  stony 

hard  stony 

351.13  hard 

stony 

stony 

Cf.  "grave  decent,"  Pt.  II,  55.8. 

.8    Rivet 

River  (B) 

River 

.15  River 

.19  were 

are 

are 

.24  are 

131.19  Family 

Family  in  the 
District  (B) 

Family 

352.7    Family 

CHAP.  IX 

132.13  that 

which  (B) 

that 

353.12  that 

"the  only  Debate 

:  that  ever  happened."    Ford's  change  to  "which"  does 

not  point  to  Swifl 

133.24  or 

and 

and 

354.12  and 

134.8   old  Ones 

elder 

elder 

.19  the  Older 

138.21  Memory 

Memorys 

Memories 

357.3    Mem- 
ories 

Where  Ford  changed  a  singular  noun  ending  in 

"y"  to  the  plural,  he 

simply  added  the  * 

's,"  without  changing  to  "ies." 

139.10  Subdivi- 

Subdivisions 

.11  Subdivi- 

sions into 

sions 

Weeks 

Dennis  prints  "subdivision,"  which 

is  better. 

141.15  several 

certain 

certain 

358.  18  certain 

144.8    cut 

cuts 

cuts 

360.1    cuts 

CHAP.  X 

145  14  Room  for 

...  to  be 

...  to  be 

361.11  ...  to  be 

made  for 

made  for 

made  for 

146.16  I  made 

Ilikewise(B) 

I  also  made 

362.6  I   likewise 

I  also(P) 

made 

106 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


147.19  splene- 

splenaticks(P) 

Splenaticks 

.28  Splene- 

tick [adj.] 

spleneticks  ( B ) 

(sic) 

ticks, 

149.21  the 

their . . . 

their  . . . 

363.34  their 

Thoughts 

Minds 

.22  their 

the 

the 

364.1    the 

.24  on 

or(B) 

on 

.2    on 

150.24  their 

this 
my 

.20  their 

152.4    and  my 

my 

365.9    my 

.8    only  a  lit- 

only a  little 

only  a  little 

.11  perhaps  a 

tle  civilized 

more  civilized 

civilized 

little  more 

(B) 

civilized 

154.4    agreeable 

...  to  the 

366.11  to  Reason 

to  Reason 

Reason 

.5    ever 

never 
of  an 

.12  ever 

157.13  of 

of  an 

368.3    of  an 

CHAP.  XI 

172.24  their 

the 

Word  and  .  . 

377.2    their 

177.9    Word  of 

.  379.4  Word   of 

Honour 

Honour 

Cf.  supra,  45.12. 

182.15  I  became 

I  had  become 

I  had  become 

381.30  I  had  be- 
come 

CHAP.  XII 

186.24  tempta- 

Temptation 

temptation 

384.33  Tempta- 

tions 

tion 

189.8    not  with 

not  the  least 

not  with 

386.11  not  the 

with(B) 

least  with 

190.1    Tribes 

Tribe(B) 

Tribes 

.24  Tribes 

192.3    some 

modern 

modern 

387.30  modern 

modern 

.9    Discovery 

Discoverys 

Discoveries 

388.1    Discov- 
eries 

Cf.  138.21  in  this 

list. 

194.4   the 

their 
have  any 

.32  the 

.17  have  a 

have  any 

389.8    have  a 

THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS 


107 


195.1    may  con-  more  con- 
cern cerns 

.4    these  those  (B) 

.9    on  


197.7    ask'd 


ask 


more  con- 

.16 may  con- 

cerns 

cern 

these 

.16  these 

in 

F.      omits      last 

paragraph, 

from  195.7 

to  .19. 

asked 

390.10  asked 

LIST  II 


RESTITUTIONS  FROM  THE  "BOOK" 

In  the  following  pages  the  quotations  in  the  left  column 
are  from  the  fourth  (8vo.)  edition  of  Motte,  1727;  those  in 
the  right  are  from  the  Dublin  edition  of  Faulkner,  1735,  un- 
less otherwise  stated.  F.  refers  to  Faulkner ;  D.  to  the  Bohn 
edition  by  Dennis,  1914.  Unless  otherwise  stated,  refer- 
ences to  Ford  are  to  his  copy  of  the  printed  book. 

MOTTE;    4TH    (8VO.)    EDI-      FAULKNER;    DUBLIN   EDI- 
TION,  LONDON,   1727  TION,  1735 

PART  II 


CHAP.  VI 

119.21  .  .  .  "Ignorance,  Idle- 
ness and  Vice  may  be  sometimes 
the  only  Ingredients  fcr  quali- 
fying a  Legislator." 

CHAP,  vn 

136.16(14)  .  .  .  "Disease  to 
which  so  many  other  Govern- 
ments are  subject;" 


163.28  .  .  .  "Ignorance,  Idle- 
ness, and  Vice  are  the  proper 
Ingredients,"  etc.  (The  same  in 
Ford.) 

173.19  .  .  .  "Disease,  to  which 
the  whole  Race  of  Mankind  is 
subject;"    (The  same  in  Ford.) 


PART  III 


CHAP.  Ill 

42.16  (Passage  omitted  in  the 
Motte  Ed.  It  was  on  the  Ford 
sheet  inserted  opposite  p.  91,  and 
was  probably  overlooked,  or  not 
discovered  until  too  late). 

42.16  "This  Advantage  hath 
enabled  them  to  extend  their 
Discoveries,"  etc. 


214.15  .  .  .  "For,  although  their 
largest  Telescopes  do  not  exceed 
three  Feet,  they  magnify  much 
more  than  those  of  a  Hundred 
with  us,  and  shew  the  Stars  with 
greater  Clearness.  This  Ad- 
vantage hath,"  etc.  (Ford's 
copy  is  slightly  different ;  "of 
an    hundred    Yards    among    us, 


THE   FORD   CORRECTIONS 


109 


47.2  .  .  .  "and  the  whole  Mass 
would  fall  to  the  Ground."  (Ford 
passage  begins  here.) 

(The  remainder  of  this  pas- 
sage was  on  the  Ford  sheet  op- 
posite p.  70,  Pt.  IV,  and,  like 
the  preceding,  was  not  noticed 
by  the  compositor  until  too  late.) 


and  at  the  same  time  shew  the 
Stars  with  greater  Clearness. 
This  Advantage,"  etc.) 

[Ford].  "About  three  years 
before  my  Arrival  among  them, 
while  the  King  was  in  his  Pro- 
gress over  his  Dominions,  there 
happened  an  extraordinary  Ac- 
cident which  had  like  to  have  put 
a  Period  to  the  Fate  of  that 
Monarchy,  at  least  as  it  is  now 
instituted.  Lindalino,  the  second 
City  in  the  Kingdom  was  the 
first  his  Majesty  visited  in  his 
Progress.  Three  Days  after  his 
Departure  the  Inhabitants  who 
had  often  complained  of  great 
Oppressions,  shut  the  Town 
Gates,  seized  on  the  Governor, 
and  with  incredible  Speed  and 
Labour  erected  four  large  Tow- 
ers, one  at  every  Corner  of  the 
City  (which  is  an  exact  Square) 
equal  in  Heigth  [sic]  to  a  strong 
pointed  Rock  that  stands  direct- 
ly in  the  Center  of  the  City. 
Upon  the  Top  of  each  Tower,  as 
well  as  upon  the  Rock,  they 
fixed  a  great  Loadstone,  and  in 
case  their  Design  should  fail, 
they  had  provided  a  vast  Quanti- 
ty of  the  most  combustible 
Fewel,  hoping  to  burst  therewith 
the  adamantine  Bottom  of  the 
Island,  if  the  Loadstone  Project 
should  miscarry. 

"It  was  eight  Months  before 
the  King  had  perfect  Notice 
that  the  Lindalinians  were  in  Re- 
bellion. He  then  commanded 
that  the  Island  should  be  wafted 
over  the  City.  The  People  were 
unanimous,  and  had  laid  in  Store 
of  Provisions,  and  a  great  River 


110  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


runs  through  the  middle  of  the 
Town.  The  King  hovered  over 
them  several  Days  to  deprive 
them  of  the  Sun  and  the  Rain. 
He  ordered  many  Packthreads 
to  be  sent 50  down,  yet  not  a 
Person  offered  to  send  up  a  Pe- 
tition, but  instead  thereof,  very 
bold  Demands,  the  Redress  of 
all  their  Greivances,  great  Im- 
nunitys,  the  Choice  of  their 
own  Governor,  and  other  the 
like  Exorbitances.  Upon  which 
his  Majesty  commanded  all  the 
Inhabitants  of  the  Island  to  cast 
great  Stones  from  the  lower  Gal- 
lery into  the  Town ;  but  the  Citi- 
zens had  provided  against  this 
Mischief  by  conveying  their  Per- 
sons and  Effects  into  the  four 
Towers,  and  other  strong  Build- 
ings, and  Vaults  under  Ground. 
"The  King  being  now  deter- 
mined to  reduce  this  proud  Peo- 
ple, ordered  that  the  Island 
should  descend  gently  within 
fourty  Yards  of  the  Top  of  the 
Towers  and  Rock.  This  was 
accordingly  done ;  but  the  Offi- 
cers employed  in  that  Work 
found  the  Descent  much  speed- 
ier than  usual,  and  by  turning 
the  Loadstone  could  not  without 
great  Difficulty  keep  it  in  a  firm 
Position,  but  found  the  Island 
inclining  to  fall.  They  sent  the 
King  immediate  Intelligence  of 
this  astonishing  event,  and 
begged  his  Majesty's  Permission 
to  raise  the  Island  higher;  the 
King  consented,  a  general  Coun- 
cil  was  called,  and  the  Officers 


50  Dennis  substitutes  "let."    "Send"  occurs  in  the  next  line. 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS  111 

of  the  Loadstone  ordered  to  at- 
tend. One  of  the  oldest  and 
expertest  among  them  obtained 
Leave  to  try  an  Experiment.  He 
took  a  strong  Line  of  an  hun- 
dred Yards,  and  the  Island  be- 
ing raised  over  the  Town  above 
the  attracting  Power  they  had 
felt,  He  fastened  a  Piece  of  Ada- 
mant to  the  End  of  his  Line 
which  had  in  it  a  Mixture  of 
Iron  mineral;  of  the  same  Na- 
ture with  that  whereof  the  Bot- 
tom or  lower  Surface  of  the  Is- 
land is  composed,  and  from  the 
lower  Gallery  let  it  down  slowly 
towards  the  Top  of  the  Towers. 
The  Adamant  was  not  descended 
four  Yards,  before  the  Officer 
felt  it  drawn  so  strongly  down- 
wards, that  he  could  hardly  pull 
it  back.  He  then  threw  down 
several  small  Pieces  of  Adamant, 
and  observed  that  they  were  all 
violently  attracted  by  the  Top 
of  the  Tower.  The  same  Ex- 
periment was  made  on  the  other 
three  Towers,  and  on  the  Rock 
with  the  same  Effect. 

"This  Incident  broke  entirely 
the  King's  Measures,  and  (to 
dwell  no  longer  on  other  Cir- 
cumstances) he  was  forced  to 
give  the  Town  their  own  Con- 
ditions. 

"I  was  assured  by  a  great  Min- 
ister, that  if  the  Island  had  de- 
scended so  near  the  Town,  as  not 
to  be  able  to  raise  itself,  the  Cit- 
izens were  determined  to  fix  it 
forever,  to  kill  the  King  and  all 
his  Servants,  and  entirely  change 
the  Government"    (D.  178.1). 

(The  above  passage  was  first 


112 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


CHAP.  VI 

90.8  "I  told  him,  that  should  I 
happen  to  live  in  a  kingdom 
where  Plots  and  Conspiracies 
were  either  in  vogue  from  the 
turbulancy  of  the  meaner  people, 
or  could  be  turned  to  the  use 
and  service  of  the  higher  rank 
of  them,  I  first  would  t;.ke  care 
to  cherish  and  encourage  the 
breed  of  Discoverers,  Witnesses, 
Informers,  Accusers,  Prosecu- 
tors, Evidences,  Swearers,  to- 
gether with  their  several  sub- 
servient and  subaltern  instru- 
ments; and  when  I  had  got  a 
competent  number  of  them  of 
all  sorts  and  capacities,  I  would 
put  them  under  the  colour  and 
conduct  of  some  dextrous  per- 
sons in  sufficient  power  both  to 
protect  and  reward  them.  Men 
thus  qualified  and  thus  empow- 
ered might  make  a  most  excel- 
lent use  and  advantage  of  Plots, 
they  might  raise  their  own  char- 
acters and  pass  for  most  pro- 
found Politicians,  they  might  re- 
store new  vigor  to  a  crazy  Ad- 
ministration, they  might  stifle  or 
divert  general  Discontents ;  fill 
their  pockets  with  forfeitures, 
and  advance  or  sink  the  opinion 
of  publick  Credit,  as  either 
might  answer  their  private  Ad- 
vantage. This  might  be  done  by 
first  agreeing  and  settling  among 
themselves  what  suspected  per- 
sons   should    be    accused    of    a 


printed  in  its  proper  place,  in  the 
text,  by  Dennis,  but  had  been 
earlier  printed  in  the  appendix 
to  Aitken's  Gulliver,  London, 
1896.) 

242.33  I  told  him,  that  in  the 
Kingdom  of  Tribnia,  by  the  Na- 
tives called  Langden,  where  I 
had  long  sojourned  ["sojourned 
some  time  in  my  Travels;  Ford], 
the  Bulk  of  the  People  consisted 
["consist  in  a  manner;"  Ford] 
wholly  of  Discoverers,  Witness- 
es, Informers,  Accusers,  Prose- 
cutors, Evidences,  Swearers ;  to- 
gether with  their  several  subser- 
vient and  subaltern  Instruments; 
all  under  the  Colours,  the  Con- 
duct, and  pay  ["Colours  and  Con- 
duct;" Ford]  of  Ministers  ["of 
State;"  Ford]  and  their  Depu- 
ties. The  Plots  in  that  King- 
dom are  usually  the  Work- 
manship of  those  Persons 
who  desire  to  raise  their  own 
Characters  of  profound  Politi- 
cians; to  restore  new  Vigour  to 
a  crazy  Administration ;  to  stifle 
or  divert  general  Discontents;  to 
fill  their  Coffers  ["Pockets;" 
Ford]  with  Forfeitures;  and 
raise  or  sink  the  Opinion  of  pub- 
lick  Credit,  as  either  shall  best 
answer  their  private  Advantage. 

"It  is  first  agreed  and  settled 
among  them,  what  suspected 
Persons  shall  be  accused  of  a 
Plot :  Then,  effectual  Care  is 
taken  to  secure  all  their  Letters 
and  other  [Ford  writes  "persons" 
and  "then,"  without  capitals  and 
omits  "other."]  Papers,  and  put 
the  Owners  ["Criminals;"  Ford] 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS 


113 


Plot.  Then  effectual  Care  being 
["is,"  1st  ed.]  taken  to  secure 
all  their  Letters  and  Papers, 
and  put  the  criminal  in  safe  and 
secure  custody;  ["These,"  1st 
ed.]  these  Papers  might  be  de- 
livered to  a  sett  of  Artists  of 
dexterity  sufficient  to  find  out 
the  mysterious  meanings  of 
Words,  Syllables,  and  Letters. 
They  should  be  allowed  to  put 
what  interpretation  they  pleased 
upon  them,  giving  them  a  sense 
not  only  which  has  no  relation 
at  all  to  them,  but  even  what  is 
quite  contrary  to  their  true  in- 
tent and  real  meaning;  thus 
for  instance,  they  may,  if  they 
so  fancy,  interpret  a  Sieve  to 
signify  a  Court  Lady ;  a  lame 
Dog  an  Invader,  the  Plague  a 
standing  Army,  a  Buzzard  a 
great  Statesman,  the  Gout  a 
High  Priest,  a  Chamber-pot  a 
Committee  of  Grandees,  a 
Broom  a  Revolution,  a  Mouse- 
trap an  Imployment,  a  Bottom- 
less-pit a  Treasury,  a  Sink  a 
Court,  a  Cap  :.nd  Bells  a  Fa- 
vourite, a  broken  Reed  a  Court 
of  Justice,  an  empty  Tun  a  Gen- 
eral, a  running  Sore  an  Admin- 
istration. 

"But  should  this  method  fail, 
recourse  might  be  had  to  others 
more  effectual,  by  learned  men 
called  Acrosticks  and  Anagrams. 
First,  might  be  found  men  of 
skill  and  penetration  who  can 
discern  that  all  initial  Letters 
have  political  Meanings.  Thus 
JV  shall  signify  a  Plot,  B  a  Reg- 


in  Chains.  These  Papers  are 
delivered  to  a  Set  of  Artists 
very  dextrous  in  finding  out 
the  mysterious  Meanings  of 
Words,  Syllables  and  Letters. 
For  Instance,  they  can  de- 
cypher  ["discover;"  Ford]  a 
Close-stool  to  signify  a  Privy- 
Council;  a  Flock  of  Geese,  a 
Senate;  a  lame  Dog,  an  Invader; 

["a  Codshead  a ;"  Ford]  the 

Plague,  a  standing  Army;  a 
Buzard,  a  ["prime;"  Ford]  Min- 
ister ;  the  Gout,  a  High  Priest ; 
a  Gibbet,  a  Secretary  of  State; 
a  Chamber  pot,  a  Committee  of 
Grandees;  [Ford's  punctuation 
differs  slightly  from  Faulkner's] 
a  Sieve  a  Court  Lady;  a  Broom, 
a  Revolution ;  a  Mouse-trap,  an 
Employment;   a   bottomless    Pit, 

the  Treasury ;  a  Sink,  a  C 1 

["the  Court;"  Ford]51;  a  Cap 
and  Bells,  a  Favourite ;  a  broken 
Reed,  a  Court  of  Justice;  an 
empty  Tun,  a  General;  a  run- 
ning Sore,  the  Administration. 
"When  ["Where;"  Ford]  this 
Method  fails,  they  have  two  oth- 
ers more  effectual;  which  the 
Learned  among  them  call  Acros- 
ticks, and  Anagrams.  First,  they 
can  decypher  all  initial  Letters 
into  political  Meanings  :  Thus,  N, 
shall  signify  a  Plot;  B,  a  Regi- 
ment of  Horse;  L,  a  Fleet  at 
Sea.  Or,  secondly,  by  transpos- 
ing the  Letters  of  the  Alphabet, 
in  any  suspected  Paper,  they  can 
lay  open  ["discover;"  Ford]  the 
deepest  Designs  of  a  discontent- 
ed Party.     So  for  Example,  if  I 


61  In  the  Faulkner  ed.  of  1752  this  is  spelled  out,  as  by  Ford. 


114 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


iment  of  Horse,  L  a  Fleet  at 
Sea.  Or  secondly,  by  transpos- 
ing the  Letters  of  the  Alphabet 
in  any  suspected  Paper,  who  can 
discover  the  deepest  designs  of 
a  discontented  Party.  So  for 
example,  if  I  should  say  in  a 
Letter  to  a  Friend,  Our  Brother 
Tom  has  just  got  the  Piles,  a 
man  of  skill  in  this  Art  would 
discover  how  the  same  Letters 
which  compose  that  Sentence, 
may  be  analyzed  ["into,"  1st 
ed.]   in  the  following  words ;" 


CHAP.  VII 

101.18  "I  desired  that  the  Sen- 
ate of  Rome  might  appear  before 
me  in  one  large  Chamber,  and 
an  Assembly  of  somewhat  a  lat- 
ter Age,  in  Counterview  in  an- 
other." 


should  say  in  a  Letter  to  a 
Friend,  Our  Brother  Tom  hath 
["has;"  Ford]  just  got  the  Piles; 
a  Man  of  Skill  in  this  Art  ["a 
skillful  Decypherer;"  Ford] 
would  discover  how  ["that"  for 
"how;"  Ford]  the  same  Letters 
which  compose  that  Sentence, 
may  be  analyzed  into  the  follow- 
ing Words;  Resist, — a  Plot  is 
brought  home — The  Tour." 

(The  above,  from  p.  90,  agrees 
with  Ford,  except  as  noted,  and 
except  as  to  some  differences  of 
punctuation,  etc.  Note,  that 
Faulkner  avoids  tautology  in 
substituting  "how"   for  "that.") 

249.18  "I  desired  that  the  Sen- 
ate of  Rome  might  appear  before 
me  in  one  large  Chamber,  and  a 
modern  Representative,  in  Coun- 
terview, in  another."  (The  same 
in  Ford.) 


PART  IV 


chap,  rv 

48.18  .  .  .  "that  faculty  of 
Lying,  so  perfectly  well  under- 
stood among  human  Creatures." 


chap,  v 

65.13  "There  are  likewise  a 
kind  of  Princes  in  Europe,  not 
able  to  make  War  by  themselves, 
who  hire  out  their  Troops  to 
richer  Nations,  for  so  much  a 
Day  to  each  Man ;  of  which  they 
keep  three  fourths  to  them- 
selves, and  it  is  the  best  part  of 
their     Maintenance;     such     are 


308.9  .  .  .  "that  Faculty  of 
Lying,  so  perfectly  well  under- 
stood, and  so  universally  prac- 
tised among  human  Creatures." 
(Original  with  Faulkner,  and 
copied  by  Hawkesworth.) 

318.11  "There  is  likewise  a 
Kind  of  beggarly  Princes  in  Eu- 
rope, not  able  to  make  War  by 
themselves,  who  hire  out  their 
Troops  to  richer  Nations  for  so 
much  a  Day  to  each  Man ;  of 
which  they  keep  three  Fourths 
to  themselves,  and  it  is  the  best 
Part  of  their  Maintenance;  such 


THE   FORD   CORRECTIONS 


115 


those   in   many  Northern   Parts 
of   Europe." 

69.15  "Therefore  he  desired  to 
be  farther  satisfied  what  I  meant 
by  Law,  and  what  sort  of  Dis- 
pensers thereof  it  could  be  by 
whose  Practices  the  Property  of 
any  Person  could  be  lost,  in- 
stead of  being  preserved.  He 
added,  he  saw  not  what  great 
Occasion  there  could  be  for  this 
thing  called  Law,  since  all  the 
Intentions  and  Purnoses  of  it 
may  be  fully  answered  by  fol- 
lowing the  Dictates  of  Nature 
and  Reason,  which  are  sufficient 
Guides  for  a  reasonable  Ani- 
mal, as  we  pretended  to  be,  in 
shewing  us  what  we  ought  to 
do,  and  what  to  avoid. 

"I  assured  his  honour,  that  Law 
was  a  Science  wherein  I  had  not 
much  conversed,  having  little 
more  Knowledge  of  it  than  what 
I  had  obtained  by  employing  Ad- 
vocates, in  vain,  upon  some  in- 
justices that  had  been  done  me, 
and  by  conversing  with  some 
others  who  by  the  same  Method 
had  first  lost  their  substance  and 
then  left  their  own  country  un- 
der the  Mortification  of  such 
Disappointments,  however  I 
would  give  him  all  the  Satis- 
faction I  was  able. 

"1  said  that  those  who  made 
profession  of  this  Science  were 
exceedingly  multiplied,  being  al- 
most equal  to  the  Caterpillars  in 
Xumber;  that  they  were  of  di- 
verse Degrees,  Distinctions  and 
Denominations.     The  numerous- 


are  those  in  many  ["in  Germany 
and  other;"  Ford]  Northern 
parts  of  Europe."  (Even  Faulk- 
ner, in  1735,  did  not  dare  print 
Ford's  substitute.) 

320.18  "Therefore  he  desired 
to  be  farther  satisfied  what  I 
meant  by  Law,  and  the  Dispens- 
ers thereof,  according  to  the 
present  Practice  in  my  own 
Country:  Because  he  thought, 
Nature  and  Reason  were  suffi- 
cient Guides  for  a  reasonable 
Animal,  as  we  pretended  to  be, 
in  shewing  us  what  we  ought  to 
do,  and  what  to  avoid.  [The 
same  in  Ford.] 

"I  assured  his  Honour,  that 
Law  was  a  Science  wherein  I 
had  not  much  conversed,  furth- 
er than  by  employing  Advocates, 
in  vain,  upon  some  Injustices 
that  had  been  done  me.  How- 
ever, I  would  give  him  all  the 
Satisfaction  I  wa3  able.  [The 
same  in  Ford.] 

"I  said  there  was  a  Society  of 
Men  among  us,  bred  up  from 
their  Youth  in  the  Art  of  prov- 
ing by  Words  multiplied  for  the 
Purpose,  that  White  is  Black, 
and  Black  is  White,  according 
as  they  are  paid.  To  this  So- 
ciety all  the  rest  of  the  People 
are  Slaves.  [The  same  in 
Ford.] 

"For  example  if  my  Neighbor 
hath  a  mind  to  my  Cow,  he 
hires  a  Lawyer  to  prove  that  he 
ought  to  have  my  Cow  from 
me.  I  must  then  hire  another 
to  defend  my  Right;  it  being 
against   all   Rules   of   Law  that 


116 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


ness  of  those  that  dedicated 
themselves  to  this  Profession 
were  such  that  the  fair  and  justi- 
fiable Advantage  and  Income  of 
the  Profession  was  not  sufficient 
for  the  decent  and  handsome 
Maintenance  of  Multitudes  of 
those  who  followed  it.  Hence 
it  came  to  pass  that  it  was  found 
needful  to  supply  that  by  Arti- 
fice and  Cunning,  which  could 
not  be  procured  by  just  and  hon- 
est Methods  :  The  better  to  bring 
which  about,  very  many  Men 
among  us  were  bred  up  from 
their  Youth  in  the  Art  of  prov- 
ing by  Words  multiplied  for  the 
purpose,  that  White  is  Black, 
and  Black  is  White,  according 
as  they  are  paid.  The  Greatness 
of  these  Mens  Assurance  and 
the  Boldness  of  their  Preten- 
sions gained  upon  the  Opinion  of 
the  Vulgar,  whom  in  a  Manner 
they  made  Slaves  of,  and  got 
into  their  Hands  much  the  larg- 
est share  of  the  Practice  of  their 
Profession.  These  Practitioners 
were  by  Men  of  Discernment 
called  Pettifoggers,  (that  is, 
Confonnders,  or  rather,  Destroy- 
ers of  Right),52  as  it  was  my  ill 


Hap  as  well  as  the  Misfortune 
of  my  suffering  Acquaintance  to 
be  engaged  only  with  this  Spe- 
cies of  the  Profession.  I  de- 
sired his  Honour  to  understand 
the   Description   I    had   to    give, 


any  Man  should  be  allowed  to 
speak  for  himself.  Now  in  this 
Case,  I  who  am  the  true 
["right;"  Ford]  Owner  lie  un- 
der two  great  Disadvantages. 
First,  my  Lawyer  being  prac- 
tised almost  from  his  Cradle  in 
defending  Falshood ;  is  quite  out 
of  his  Element  when  he  would 
be  an  Advocate  for  ["of;"  Ford] 
Justice,  which  as  an  Office  un- 
natural, he  always  attempts  with 
great  Awkwardness,  if  not  with 
["great  Awkwardness,  if  not 
with"  are  omitted  by  Ford]  Ill- 
will.  The  second  Disadvantage 
is,  that  my  Lawyer  must  proceed 
with  great  Caution;  Or  else  he 
will  be  reprimanded  by  the 
Judges,  and  abhorred  by,  his 
Brethren,  as  one  who  ["that;"  . 
Ford]  would  lessen  the  Practice 
of  the  Law.  And  therefore  I 
have  but  two  Methods  to  pre- 
serve my  Cozv. 

"The  first  is,  to  gain  over  my 
Adversary's  Lawyer  with  a  dou- 
ble Fee;  who  will  then  betray 
his  Client,  by  insinuating  that  he 
hath  Justice  on  his  Side.  The 
second  Way  is  for  my  Lawyer 
to  make  my  Cause  appear  as  un- 
just as  he  can,  by  allowing  the 
Cozv  to  belong  to  my  Adversary; 
and  this  if  it  be  skilfully  done, 
will  certainly  bespeak  the  Fav- 
our of  the  Bench.  [The  same  in 
Ford.] 

"Now,  your  Honour  is  to  know, 
that    these    Judges    are    Persons 


52  This  sentence  should  end  at  "Right,"  and  the  next  lines  be 
combined  with  what  follows,  to-wit :  "As  it  was  &c.  .  .  to  be  en- 
gaged only  with  this  Species  of  the  Profession,  I  desired,"  etc. 


THE   FORD    CORRECTIONS 


117 


and  the  Ruin  I  had  complained 
of  to  relate  to  these  Sectaries 
only ;  and  how  and  by  what  means 
the  Misfortunes  we  met  with 
were  brought  upon  us  by  the 
Management  of  these  Men, 
might  be  more  easily  conceived 
by  explaining  to  him  their  Meth- 
od of  Proceeding,  which  could 
not  be  better  done  than  by  giv- 
ing him  an  Example. 

"My  Neighbour,  said  I,  I  will 
suppose,  has  a  mind  to  my  Cow,53 
he  hires  one  of  these  advocates 
to  prove  that  he  ought  to  have 
my  Cow  from  me.  I  must  then 
hire  another  of  them  to  defend 
my  right,  it  being  against  all 
Rules  of  Law  that  any  man 
should  be  allowed  to  speak  for 
himself.  Now  in  this  case,  I 
who  am  the  right  Owner  lie  un- 
der two  great  Disadvantages. 
First,  my  Advocate,  being  as  I 
said  before  practised  almost 
from  his  Cradle  in  defending 
Falshood,  is  quite  out  of  his 
Element  when  he  would  argue 
for  Right,  which  as  an  Office 
unnatural  he  attempts  with 
great  Awkwardness,  if  not  with 
an  Ill-will.  The  second  disad- 
vantage is  that  my  Advocate 
must  proceed  with  great  Cau- 
tion; for,  since  the  Maintenance 
of  so  many  depends  on  the  keep- 


appointed  to  decide  all  Contro- 
versies of  Property,  as  well  as 
for  the  Tryal  of  Criminals;  and 
picked  out  from  the  most  dex- 
trous Lawyers  who  are  grown 
old  or  lazy;  And  having  been  by- 
assed  all  their  Lives  against 
Truth  and  Equity,  lie  ["are;" 
Ford]  under  such  a  fatal  Ne- 
cessity of  favouring  Fraud, 
Perjury  and  Oppression;  that 
I  have  known  some  ["sev- 
eral;" Ford]  of  them,  to  have 
refused  ["refuse;"  Ford]  a  large 
Bribe  from  the  Side  where  Jus- 
tice lay,  rather  than  injure  the 
Faculty,  by  doing  any  thing  un- 
becoming their  Nature  or  their 
Office. 

"It  is  a  Maxim  among  these 
Lawyers,  that  whatever  hath 
been  done  before,  may  legally  be 
done  again :  And  therefore  they 
take  special  Care  to  record  all 
the  Decisions  formerly  made 
against  common  Justice  and  the 
general  Reason  of  Mankind. 
These,  under  the  Name  of  Pre- 
cedents, they  produce  as  Author- 
ities to  justify  the  most  Iniquit- 
ous Opinions ;  and  the  Judges 
never  fail  of  directing  ["decree- 
ing;"  Ford]    accordingly." 

(The  above  from  page  69 
agrees  with  Ford's  copy  except 
as  noted,  and  except  as  to  some 


53  "Towards  ye  end  &c  manifestly  most  barbarously  corrupted,  full 
of  Flatness,  Cant  Words,  and  Softenings  unworthy  the  Dignity, 
Spirit,  Candour  &  Frankness  of  the  Author.  By  that  admirable  In- 
stance of  the  Cow  it  is  plain  the  Satyr  is  design'd  against  the  Pro- 
fession in  general,  &  not  only  against  Attorneys,  or,  as  they  are 
there  smartly  styl'd,  Pettifoggers.  You  ought  in  justice  to  restore 
these  twelve  Pages  to  the  true  Reading."     (Ford's  "paper.") 


118  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

ing  up  of  Business,  should  he  slight  differences  of  punctua- 
proceed  too  summarily,  if  he  tion.) 
does  not  incur  the  Displeasure 
of  his  Superiors,  he  is  sure  to 
gain  the  Ill-will  and  Hatred  of 
his  Brethren,  as  being  by  them 
esteemed  one  that  would  lessen 
the  Practice  of  the  Law.  This 
being  the  Case,  I  have  but  two 
Methods  to  preserve  my  Cow. 
The  first  is,  to  gain  over  my  Ad- 
versaries Advocate  with  a  dou- 
ble Fee;  from  the  Manner  and 
Design  of  whose  Education  be- 
fore mentioned  it  is  easy  to  ex- 
pect he  will  be  induced  to  drop 
his  Client  and  let  the  Ballance 
fall  on  my  side.  The  second 
way  is  for  my  Advocate  not  to 
insist  on  the  Justice  of  my  Cause, 
by  allowing  the  Cow  to  belong 
to  my  Adversary;  and  this  if  it 
be  dexterously  and  skilfully 
done  will  go  a  great  way  to- 
wards obtaining  a  favorable 
Verdict,  it  having  been  found, 
from  a  careful  Observation  of 
Issues  and  Events,  that  the 
wrong  side,  under  the  Manage- 
ment of  such  Practitioners,  has 
the  fairer  Chance  for  Success, 
and  this  more  especially  if  it 
happens,  as  it  did  in  mine  and 
my  Friend's  Case,  and  may  have 
done  since,  that  the  Person  ap- 
pointed to  decide  all  Controver- 
sies of  Property  as  well  as  for 
the  Tryal  of  Criminals,  who 
should  be  taken  out  of  the  most 
knowing  and  wise  of  his  Pro- 
fession, is  by  the  Recommenda- 
tion of  a  great  Favourite,  or 
Court-Mistress  chosen  out  of 
the  Sect  before  mentioned,  and 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS  119 

so,  having  been  under  a  strong 
Biass  all  his  Life  against  Equity 
and  fair  dealing,  lies  as  it  were 
under  a  fatal  Necessity  of  fa- 
vouring, shifting,  double  dealing 
and  Oppression,  and  besides 
through  Age,  Infirmity,  and  Dis- 
tempers grown  lazy,  unactive, 
and  inattentive,  and  thereby  al- 
most incapacitated  from  doing 
any  thing  becoming  the  Nature 
of  his  Imployment,  and  the  Duty 
of  his  Office.54  In  such  Cases, 
the  Decisions  and  Determina- 
tions of  Men  so  bred,  and  so 
qualified,  may  with  Reason  be 
expected  on  the  wrong  side  of 
the  Cause,  since  those  who  can 
take  Harangue  and  Noise,  (if 
pursued  with  Warmth,  and 
drawn  out  into  a  Length,)  for 
Reasoning,  are  not  much  to  be 
wondered  at,  if  they  infer  the 
weight  of  the  Argument  from 
the  heaviness  of  the   Pleading. 

It  is  a  Maxim,  among  these 
Men,  That  whatever  has  been 
done  before  may  legally  be  done 
again :  And  therefore  they  take 
special  Care  to  record  all  the 
Decisions  formerly  made,  even 
those  which  have  through  Ignor- 
ance or  Corruption  contradicted 
the  Rules  of  Common  Justice 
and  the  general  Reason  of  Man- 
kind. These,  under  the  Name 
of  Precedents,  they  produce  as 
Authorities,  and  thereby  en- 
deavour to  justify  the  most  in- 
iquitous Opinions ;  and  they  are 

54  The  thought  here  is  meant  to  be  carried  forward  and  this 
would  be  expressed  by  using  a  dash  after  "Office,"  instead  of  a 
period. 


120 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


so  lucky  in  this  Practice,  that  it 
rarely  fails  of  Decrees  answer- 
able to  their  Intent  and  Expec- 
tation." 

77.3  "It  is  likewise  to  be  ob- 
served that  this  Society  hath  a 
peculiar  Cant  and  Jargon  .  .  . 
whereby  they  have  gone  near  to 
confound  the  very  Essence  of 
Truth  and  Falshood,  of  Right 
and  Wrong :  so  that  it  may  take 
Thirty  Years  to  decide,"  etc. 

"In  the  Tryal  of  Persons  ac- 
cused for  Crimes  against  the 
State,  the  Method  is  much  more 
short  and  commendable :  For  if 
those  in  power,  who  know  well 
how  to  choose  Instruments  fit 
for  their  Purpose,  take  care  to 
recommend  and  promote  out  of 
this  Clan  a  proper  Person,  his 
Method  of  Education  and  Prac- 
tice makes  it  easy  to  him,  when 
his  Patron's  Disposition  is  un- 
derstood, without  Difficulty  or 
Study  either  to  condemn  or  ac- 
quit the  Criminal,  and  at  the 
same  time  strictly  preserve  all 
due  Forms  of  Law." 

78.11  "Advocates." 
.15  "In  answer  to  which  I 
assured  his  Honour  that  the 
Business  and  Study  of  their  own 
Calling  and  Profession  so  took 
up  all  their  Thoughts  and  en- 
grossed all  their  Time,  that  they 
minded  nothing  else,  and  that 
therefore,  in  all  points  out  of 
their  own  Trade,  many  of  them 
were  of  so  great  Ignorance  and 
Stupidity,  that  it  was  hard  to 
pick  out  of  any  Profession  a 
Generation  of  Men  more  despic- 


322.29  "It  is  likewise  to  be  ob- 
served, that  this  Society  hath  a 
peculiar  Cant  and  Jargon  .  .  . 
whereby  they  have  wholly  con- 
founded the  very  Essence  of 
Truth  and  Falshood,  of  Right 
and  Wrong;  so  that  it  will  take 
Thirty  Years  to  decide,"  etc. 
(The  same  in  Ford.) 

323.5  "In  the  Tryal  of  Persons 
accused  for  Crimes  against  the 
State,  the  Method  is  much  more 
short  and  commendable :  The 
Judge  first  sends  to  sound  the 
Disposition  of  those  in  Power; 
after  which  he  can  easily  hang 
or  save  the  Criminal,  strictly 
preserving  all  the  ["due;"  Ford] 
Forms  of  Law." 


323.13  "Lawyers."  (Ford.) 
.16  "In  Answer  to  which,  I  as- 
sured his  Honour,  that  in  all 
Points  out  of  their  own  Trade, 
they  were  usually  ["usually"  is 
omitted  by  Ford]  the  most  ig- 
norant and  stupid  Generation 
among  us,  the  most  despicable 
in  common  Conversation,  avowed 
Enemies  to  all  Knowledge  and 
Learning;  and  equally  disposed 
to  pervert  the  general  Reason  of 
Mankind,  in  every  other  Subject 
of  Discourse,  as  in  that  of  their 
own  Profession." 

324.  (Chapter  heading  altered 
to  meet  change  of  text.  Accord- 
ing to  Ford,  it  is  "A  Continua- 
tion of  the  State  of  England. 
The  Character  of  a  first  Min- 
ister.") 


THE  FORD   CORRECTIONS 


121 


able  in  common  Conversation,  or 
who  were  so  much  looked  upon 
as  avowed  Enemies  to  all 
Knowledge  and  Learning,  being 
equally  disposed  to  pervert  the 
general  reason  of  Mankind  in 
every  other  Subject  of  Discourse 
as  in  that  of  their  own  Calling." 

CHAP.  VI 

90.12  "I  told  him,  that  our  She 
Governor  or  Queen  having  no 
Ambition  to  gratify,  no  Inclin- 
ation to  satisfy  of  extending  her 
Power  to  the  Injury  of  her 
Neighbours,  or  the  Prejudice  of 
her  own  Subjects,  was  therefore 
so  far  from  needing  a  corrupt 
Ministry  to  carry  on  or  cover 
any  sinister  Designs,  that  she 
not  only  directs  her  own  Ac- 
tions to  the  Good  of  her  People, 
conducts  them  by  the  Direction, 
and  restrains  them  within  the 
Limitation  of  the  Laws  of  her 
own  Country;  but  submits  the 
Behaviour  and  Acts  of  those  She 
intrusts  with  the  Administration 
of  Her  Affairs  to  the  Examina- 
tion of  Her  great  Council,  and 
subjects  them  to  the  Penalties 
of  the  Law;  and  therefore  never 
puts  any  such  Confidence  in  any 
of  her  Subjects  as  to  entrust 
them  with  the  whole  and  entire 
Administration  of  her  Affairs: 
But  I  added,  that  in  some  form- 
er Reigns  here,  and  in  many 
other  Courts  of  Europe  now, 
where  Princes  grew  indolent  and 
careless  of  their  own  Affairs 
through  a  constant  Love  and 
Pursuit  of  Pleasure,  they  made 
use  of  such  an  Administrator,  as 
I  had  mentioned,  under  the  Ti- 


310.1  (330.1 )  "I  told  him,  that  a 
First  or  Chief  Minister  of  State, 
whom,  ["who  was  the  Person;" 
Ford]  I  intended  to  describe, 
was  a  Creature  wholly  exempt 
from  Joy  and  Grief,  Love  and 
Hatred,  Pity  and  Anger ;  at  least 
makes  ["made;"  Ford]  use  of  no 
other  Passions  but  a  violent  De- 
sire of  Wealth,  Power,  and  Ti- 
tles;" 


122 


GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 


tie  of  first  or  chief  Minister  of 
State,  the  Description  of  which, 
as  far  as  it  may  be  collected 
not  only  from  their  Actions,  but 
from  the  Letters,  Memoirs,  and 
Writings  published  by  them- 
selves, the  Truth  of  which  has 
not  yet  been  disputed,  may  be 
allowed  to  be  as  follows :  That 
he  is  a  Person  wholly  exempt 
from  Joy  and  Grief,  Love  and 
Hatred,  Pity  and  Anger;  at 
least  makes  use  of  no  other 
Passions  but  a  violent  Desire  of 
Wealth,   Power  and  Titles;" 

93.14  "by  an  Act  of  Indemnity 
(whereof  I  described  the  Na- 
ture to  him)  they  secured  them- 
selves from  after  Reckonings, 
and  retired  from  the  Publick, 
laden  with  the  Spoils  of  the  Na- 
tion." 


97.1  "her  Neighbors,  or  Ac- 
quaintance, in  order  to  improve 
and  continue  the  Breed.  That 
a  weak  diseased  Body,  a  meager 
Countenance,  and  sallow  Com- 
plexion, are  no  uncommon 
Marks  of  a  Great  Man ;  and  a 
healthy  robust  Appearance  is  so 
far  disgraceful  in  a  Man  of 
Quality,  that  the  World  is  apt 
to  conclude  his  real  Father  to 
have  been  one  of  the  inferiors 
of  the  Family,  especially  when 
it  is  seen  that  the  Imperfections 
of  his  Mind  run  parallel  with 
those  of  his  Body  and  are  little 
else  than  a  Composition  of 
Spleen,  Dulness,  Ignorance,  Ca- 
price,  Sensuality,  and  Pride." 


310.31  (330.31)  "by  an  Exped- 
ient called  an  Act  of  Indemnity 
(whereof  I  described  the  Nature 
to  him)  they  secure  themselves 
from  After-reckonings,  and  re- 
tire," etc.  [Present  tense  used  to 
correspond  to  "preserve  them- 
selves" several  lines  above.  Ford 
lets  the  past  tense  stand  in  each 
case.] 

332.26  "her  Neighbors,  or  Do- 
mesticks,  in  order  to  improve 
and  continue  the  Breed.  That,  a 
weak  diseased  Body,  a  meager 
Countenance,  and  ["a"  for  "and;" 
Ford]  sallow  Complexion,  are 
the  true  Marks  of  noble  Blood; 
and  a  healthy  robust  Appearance 
is  so  disgraceful  in  a  Man  of 
Quality,  that  the  World  con- 
cludes his  real  Father  to  have 
been  a  Groom  or  a  Coachman. 
The  Imperfections  of  his  Mind 
run  parallel  with  those  of  his 
Body;  being  a  Composition  of 
Spleen,  Dulness,  Ignorance,  Ca- 
price, Sensuality  and  Pride. 

Without  the  Consent  of  this 
illustrious  Body,  no  Law  can  be 


THE    FORD    CORRECTIONS 


123 


CHAP.  VII 

107.22  "our  Courts  of  Equity, 
would  seldom  have  dismissed 
the  Cause  while  either  of  them 
had  any  thing  left." 

109.19  "called  Hnea-Yahoo  or 
the  Yahoo's- Evil,  and  the  Cure 
prescribed  is  a  Mixture  of  their 
own  Dung  and  Urine  forcibly- 
put  down  the  Yahoo's  Throat. 
This  I  have  since  often  taken 
myself  and  do  freely  recom- 
mend," etc. 

[The  above  is  the  reading  of 
the  1st  ed.  and  may  have  been 
due  to  the  malice  of  the  printer's 
devil.]  "This  I  have  since  often 
known  to  have  been  taken  with 
Success,  and  do  freely  recom- 
mend," etc.  [This  is  the  reading 
of  the  4th  (8vo.)  and  subsequent 
editions,  and  is  the  same  in  Ford.] 

CHAP.  XI 

176.17  "of  my  Veracity,  and 
the  rather  because  he  confessed 
he  met  with  a  Dutch  Skipper, 
who  pretended  to  have  landed 
with  Five  others  of  his  Crew 
upon  a  certain  Island  or  Con- 
tinent South  of  Nezv  Holland, 
where  they  went  for  fresh 
Water,  and  observed  a  Horse 
driving  before  him  several  Ani- 
mals exactly  resembling  those  I 
described  under  the  Name  of 
Yahoos,  with  some  other  par- 
ticulars, which  the  Captain  said 
he  had  forgot;  because  he  then 


enacted  ["made"  for  "enacted;" 
Ford],  repealed,  or  altered:  And 
these  Nobles  have  ["these  have;" 
Ford]  likewise  the  Decision  of 
all  our  Possessions  without  Ap- 
peal."    (The  same  in  Ford.) 

339.19  "our  Courts  of  Equity, 
would  never,"  etc.  (The  same 
in  Ford.) 

340.21  "This  I  have  since  often 
known  to  have  been  taken  with 
Success :  And  do  here  freely," 
etc.     (Ford  omits  "here.") 


379.1  "of  my  veracity.  But  he 
added,"  (Ford  does  not  alter 
this  passage,  but  Faulkner  and 
Dennis  omit  it.) 


124 


GULLIVER'S    TRAVELS 


concluded   them  all   to   be  Lies. 
But  he  added," 

CHAP.  XII 

194.24  "However,  if  those 
whom  it  more  concerns,  ["may 
concern,"  1st  ed.]  think  fit  to  be 
of  another  Opinion,  I  am  ready 
to  depose,  when  I  shall  be  law- 
fully called,  That  no  European 
did  ever  visit  these  Countries 
before  me.  I  mean,  if  the  In- 
habitants ought  to  be  believed; 
unless  a  Dispute  may  arise  about 
the  two  Yahoos,  said  to  have  been 
seen  many  Ages  ago  in  a  Moun- 
tain in  Houyhnhnm-land,  from 
whence  the  Opinion  is,  that  the 
Race  of  those  Brutes  hath  de- 
scended ;  and  these,  for  any 
thing  I  know,  may  have  been 
English,  which  indeed  I  was  apt 
to  suspect  from  the  Lineaments 
of  their  Posterity's  Counten- 
ances, although  very  much  de- 
faced. But,  how  far  that  will 
go  to  make  out  a  Title,  I  leave 
to  the  Learned  in  Colony-Law." 

The  above  passages  printed  by  Faulkner  agree  very  closely 
with  those  of  the  Ford  copy  —  nearly  enough  to  confirm  the 
conclusion  that  Faulkner's  statement  in  his  "Advertisement" 
referred  to  the  Ford  or  a  similar  copy,  of  which  he  actually 
had  the  use.  Faulkner  thus  gave  Swift  the  satisfaction  of 
seeing  the  "sting"  restored  to  most  of  the  passages  from 
which  Motte  had  withdrawn  it.  In  a  few  cases,  however, 
even  Faulkner  was  unwilling  to  go  to  the  length  to  which 
Ford  had  urged  Motte,  as  for  example,  to  print  "a  Sink,  the 
Court."  He  would  not  even  go  as  far  as  Motte  had  gone  — 
"a  Court"  —  but  printed  "a  C — t."  On  the  other  hand,  he 
doubtless  humored  Swift,  by  giving  or  allowing  a  wider  ap- 
plication to  some  of  his  innuendoes. 


389.13  "However,  if  those 
whom  it  may  concern  ["more 
concerns;"  Ford],  think  fit  to 
be  of  another  Opinion,  I  am 
ready  to  depose,  when  I  shall 
be  lawfully  called,  That  no  Eu- 
ropean did  ever  visit  these  Coun- 
tries before  me.  I  mean,  if  the 
Inhabitants  ought  to  be  believ- 
ed." (Dennis  adds  to  the  fore- 
going :  "unless  a  dispute  may 
arise  about  the  two  Yahoos,  said 
to  have  been  seen  many  ages 
ago  on  a  mountain  in  Houy- 
hnhnm-land." The  rest  of  the 
passage  is  omitted  by  Faulkner, 
Hawkesworth,  Sheridan,  and 
Dennis.  Ford  is  silent.  Swift's 
words  are  too  strong  for  an 
English  ear,  even  two  hundred 
years  away.  Possibly,  however, 
Swift  relented  in  this  instance, 
and  consented  to  expunge  this 
brutal  slur  on  his  countrymen.) 


CONTENTS  OF  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


LIST  OF  EDITIONS   OF  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS, 
MAINLY   FROM  A   PRIVATE  COLLECTION 


GREAT    BRITAIN    AND    IRELAND 

FRANCE 

BELGIUM 

GERMANY 

HOLLAND  —  DUTCH 

HOLLAND  —  FRENCH 

ITALY 

SPAIN 

SWEDEN 

NORTH   AMERICA 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 

NOTE.    Abbreviations  will  be  used  in   the  appended  list  as  fol- 
lows: 
Travels.  .  .W orld  =  Travels  into  several  remote  nations 

of  the  world. 
Four  =  In  four  parts. 

Lemuel  . . .  Ships  =  By  Lemuel  Gulliver,  first  a  surgeon 

and  then  a  captain  of  several  ships. 

Swift    .  .  .   Dean  =  Jonathan   Swift,   D.D.,  Dean   of   St. 

Patrick's,  Dublin. 
S-  P.  ==  Separately  paged. 

C.  P.  =  Continuously  paged. 


GREAT  BRITAIN  AND  IRELAND 

LONDON 

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Ships.  London:  Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at  the 
Middle  Temple  Gate  in  Fleet-street,     mdccxxvi. 

2  v.  Parts  separately  paged.  Pp.,  pt.  1,  xvi,  148;  pt. 
2,  vi  (unnumbered),  164;  pt.  3,  vi  (unnumbered),  155; 
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19i )  with  port,  in  first  or  in  second  state.  (Pis.  I-VI, 
IX.) 

1726     (Motte)    Same  title  and  imprint  as  first  edition. 

M,DCC,XXVI. 

2  v.  Parts  separately  paged.  Pp.,  pt.  1,  xii,  148;  pt.  2, 
vi^unnumbered),  164;  pt.  3,  vi  (unnumbered),  154;  pt.  4, 
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Second  edition.  Ordinary  size  only.  The  three  title 
pages  of  v.  1  are  identical  with  those  of  the  first  edition. 
The  text  of  v.  2  is  found  with  two  different  general  title 
pages :  Type  A  has  on  it  "The  Second  Edition" ;  Type  B, 
in  the  line  below  "Gulliver,"  has  "Vol.  II,"  and  is  the 
same  as  that  of  the  third  edition  (continuous  pagination). 
Portrait  in  second  state.  (Pis.  II-IV,  VII,  VIII,  IX, 
XL). 

1726  (Motte)  Same  title  and  imprint  as  the  two  preced- 
ing editions.     m,dcc,xxvi. 

2  v.  Each  volume  continuously  paged.  Pp.,  v.  1,  xii 
(last  four  unnumbered),  148,  and  vi  (unnumbered),  149- 
310;  v.  2,  vi  (unnumbered),  154,  and  viii  (unnumbered), 
155-353;  plates  as  above;  cm.  19^. 

Third  edition.  Variant :  Type  C.  Has  the  prelimi- 
nary leaves  and  the  text  of  parts  1  and  3  of  the  C.  p.  edi- 
tion of  1726,  with  parts  2  and  4  entire,  of  the  (s.  p.)  edi- 
tion of  1727,  thus  apparently  making  a  fourth  (s.  p.) 
edition  of  1726.  No  copy  in  contemporary  binding  has 
been  noted.     Portrait  in  second  state.  (Pis.  VII,  VIII.) 

DUBLIN 

1726  (Hyde)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  In  this  Impression,  several  ERRORS  in 
the  London  Edition  are  Corrected.  Dublin :  Print- 
ed by  and  for  J.  Hyde,  Bookseller  in  Dame's  Street, 
1726. 
(PI.  XX.) 

2  v.  in  1.  Pp.,  x  (unnumbered)  (2),  274;  5  maps,  1 
plan ;  cm.  16*. 

No  port,  in  copy  examined. 

LONDON 

1726  (No  pub.)  A  KEY,  being  Observations  and  Ex- 
planatory Notes  upon  the  Travels  of  Lemuel  Gul- 
liver. By  Signor  Corolini,  a  noble  Venetian  now 
residing  in  London.     In  a  Letter  to  Dean  Swift. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  129 

Translated  from  the  Italian  Original.  Qui  vitlt, 
Lector,  incipi  decipiatur,  Out  comes  the  Book,  and 
the  Key  follows  after.  London:  Printed  in  the 
year  mdccxxvi.     Price  Six  Pence. 

Pp.,  29  (3,  book  ads.  by  H.  Curll)  ;  cm.  \9l/2. 
This    (first)    letter   is    sometimes   preceded   by  a   plate 
and  this  title-page : 

Lemuel  Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  remote  Nations 
of  the  World.  Compendiously  methodized,  for  pub- 
lick  Benefit;  with  Observations  and  Explanatory  Notes 
throughout.  

The   Mind  of   the   Frontispiece. 
Above,  the  Lilliputian-Scene  survey; 
Beneath,  see  Flimnap,  by  his  Wand,  bear  sway. 


LONDON : 

Printed  in  the  year  MDCCXXVI. 
Price  2s.  6d. 
The  above  is  followed  by  a  leaf  —  a  poem  headed :  — 
Verses  writ  in  the  Blank  Leaf  of  a  Lady's  GULLI- 
VER, as  it  lay  open,  in  an  Apartment  of  St.  James's 
Palace. 

1726  The  Brobdingnagians.  Being  a  KEY  to  Gulli- 
ver's Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  In  a  Second  Letter 
to  Dean  SWIFT. 

Such- Policy,  such  Arts,  and  such  Decorum, 
Has  not  been  seen  in  any  State  before  'em. 

Hesiod,  aut  al. 

London :  Printed  in  the  year  mdccxxvi.     Price  Six 
Pence. 
Pp.  32;  cm.  19*. 

1726  The  Flying  Island,  etc.  Being  a  KEY  to  Gulli- 
ver's Voyage  to 

Laputa,  1 1     Luggnagg, 

Balnibarbi.  and 

Glubbdubdribb,  Japan. 


130  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

In  a  Third  Letter  to  Dean  SWIFT 


Laputians  here  behold  with  wond'ring  Eyes, 

And  see  the  Stocks  in  Balnibarbi  rise ; 

Luggnaggian  Muftis  bear  away  the  Bell, 

And  Glubbdnbdribbians  call  up  Sprites  from  Hell: 

The  Japanese  in  fam'd  Exploits  are  found, 

And  long  have  been  by  Ogilby  renown'd. 

GULLIVER. 

LONDON :  Printed  in  the  Year  mdccxxvi.     Price 
Six  Pence. 
Pp.  32;  cm.  \%. 

1726  The  Kingdom  of  Horses.  Being  a  KEY  to  Gul- 
liver's Voyage  to  the  Houyhnhnms.  In  a  Fourth 
Letter  to  Dean  SWIFT. 

Here,  Rochester's  Remark's  made  good,  at  least, 
Man,   differs   more  from   Man ;    than   Man  from 
Beast. 

London :     Printed  in  the  Year  mdccxxvi.     Price 
Six  Pence. 
Pp.  28;  cm.  19*. 

1727  (Motte).  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  London:  Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at 
the  Middle  Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-street.  m,dcc,- 
xxvii. 

2  v.  Each  vol.  continuously  paged.  Pp.:  pt.  I.,  xii  (iii 
to  vi  numbered),  122;  pt.  2,  vi  (unnumbered),  129-264; 
pt.  3,  vi  (unnumbered),  118;  pt.  4,  vi  (unnumbered), 
125-269;  5  maps,  5  plates;  cm.  15J. 

Fourth  Motte  edition.  Has  the  usual  5  maps  and  1 
plate ;  and  4  engraved  plates  of  scenes.  Some  copies  have 
the  "Verses"  of  the  8vo  ed.  of  this  year.  Some  typo- 
graphical errors  were  evidently  corrected  during  the  press- 
work.    No  portrait.     (PI.  XVI.) 

1727  (Motte)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.     To  which  are  prefix'd  Several  Copies  of 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  131 

VERSES  Explanatory  and  Commendatory;  never 
before  printed.  Vol.  I.  The  Second  Edition. 
[Vol.  II  —  "The  Second  Edition,  Corrected."] 
London:  Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at  the  Middle 
Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-street.     Mdcccxxvii. 

2  v.  Parts  separately  paged.  Pp.,  pt.  1,  xii,  148;  pt.  2, 
vi,  164;  pt.  3,  vi,  155,  and  pt.  4,  viii,  199;  5  maps,  1  plan; 
cm.  19i 

Fifth  (4th  8vo.)  Motte  edition.  Variant: — Type  D. 
Has  the  five  title  pages,  all  the  preliminary  leaves  at  the 
beginning  of  each  volume,  and  the  first  leaf  of  the  text 
of  Vol.  I  of  the  s.  p.  ed.  of  1727,  with  the  text  of  both 
volumes  after  p.  2,  including  the  "Contents"  of  Parts  II 
and  IV,  of  the  c.  p.  ed.  of  1726,  thus  apparently  making 
a  c.  p.  edition  of  1727.  Only  one  copy  noted,  and  that 
was  rebound.  Portrait  in  second  or  in  third  state.  (Pis. 
X,  XIV,  XV.) 

1727  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver. 
Vol.  III. 

Accidit  in  Puncto,  quod  non  speratur  in  Anno. 
Gaudent  securi  narrare  pericida  ncintae. 

London:  Printed  in  the  Year  m.dcc.xxvii. 

In  two  parts.  Pp.  vi,  118,  and  viii,  159;  cm.  19*.  (Half 
title). 

This  volume,  not  by  Swift,  contains  "A  Second  voyage 
to  Brobdingnag,"  "A  Voyage  to  Sporunda,"  and  "A  Voy- 
age to  Sevarambia,"  the  last  named  being  stolen  from 
"History  of  the  Sevarites  or  Sevarambes,"  by  Denis  de 
Veiras,  first  published  at  London  in  1675-1679.'  (Cf.  Fritz 
Briiggemann.  Utopie  und  Robinsonaden,  Weimar,  1914, 
p.  152,  Note.) 

1727  (Stone)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Capt.  Lemuel 
Gulliver.  Faithfully  abridged.  London:  Printed 
for  J.  Stone,  against  Bedford-Row,  and  R.  King, 
at  the  Prince's-Arms  in   St.   Paul's   Church-yard. 

MDCCXXVII. 

(PI.  XXI.) 


132  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

4  parts  in  1  v.  Pages  numbered  as  of  two  volumes. 
Pp.  viii  or  xiv,  159,  and  175(4)  ;  front,  (port.)  ;  cm.  16. 

General  t.p. ;  and  separate  t.p.  to  Pt.  2  only,  (pp.  71-74, 
Contents  to  Pt.  2.)  After  the  preface  some  copies  have 
2  pp.  of  "Contents"  (to  Pt.  1)  ;  others — "A  key  and  com- 
plete index  to  Captain  Gulliver's  Travels" — 8  numbered  pp. 

DUBLIN 

1727  (Risk)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Vol.  I.  Containing 
Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  Part  II.  A  Voy- 
age to  Brobdingnag.  By  Lemuel  Gulliver,  First  a 
Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain  of  several  Ships. 
With  Cuts  and  Maps  of  the  Author's  Travels. 
Dublin:  Printed  by  S.  P.  for  G.  Risk,  G.  Ewing, 
and  W.  Smith,  in  Dame's-street,  Mdccxxvii. 
2  v.  in  1 ;  cm.  16^. 

The  copy  in  the  Yale  library  has  a  portrait  of  Swift, 
by  Cook,  pasted  on  the  fly  leaf  opposite  the  t.  p.  Copy  not 
examined. 

LONDON 

1727  (Roberts)  Memoirs  of  the  Court  of  Lilliput. 
Written  by  Captain  Gulliver.  Containing  an  Ac- 
count of  the  Intrigues,  and  some  other  particular 
Transactions  of  that  Nation,  omitted  in  the  two 
Volumes  of  his  Travels.  Published  by  Lucas 
Bennett,  with  a  Preface,  showing  how  these  Pa- 
pers fell  into  his  hands.  London:  Printed  for  J. 
Roberts,  near  the  Oxford-Arms  in  Warwick-Lane. 
m.dcc.xxvii.     (Price  2s.) 

Pp.,  viii,  159;  cm.  191. 

At  least  two  editions  were  published  in  1727. 

1727  (Roberts)  Gulliver  Decypher'd ;  or  Remarks  on 
a  late  Book,  intitled,  Travels  into  several  remote 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  133 

Nations  of  the  World.  By  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver. 
Vindicating  the  Reverend  Dean  on  whom  it  is  ma- 
liciously Father'd.  With  some  probable  Conjec- 
tures concerning  the  Real  Author. 

Sit  mihi  fas  audita  loqui:  sit  numine  vestro 
Pandere  res  alta  terra  &  caligine  mersas. 

Virg.  A  En.  6. 

London :     Printed   for  J.   Roberts,   near  the  Ox- 
ford-Arms  in   Warwick-Lane :   And    Sold  by  the 
Booksellers  of  London  and  Westminster.     (Price 
Is.) 
Pp.  xiv,  49;  cm.  20.     (Half-title) 

1728  (Roberts)  An  Account  of  the  State  of  Learning 
in  the  Empire  of  Lilliput.  Together  with  the  His- 
tory and  Character  of  Bullum  the  Emperor's  Li- 
brary-keeper. Faithfully  transcribed  out  of  Cap- 
tain Lemuel  Gulliver's  General  Description  of  the 
Empire  of  Lilliput,  mention'd  in  the  69th  Page  of 
the  First  Volume  of  his  Travels.  London :  Printed 
for  J.  Roberts  in  Warwick-Lane,     m  dcc  xxvii. 

Pp.   37;   cm.   19J. 

1728     (Austen?) 

A  rebound  copy  of  the  4th  (8vo.)  Motte  edition  has  4 
leaves  of  book-advertisements  at  the  end  of  Vol.  II, 
among  which,  in  "A  catalogue  of  Books  Printed  for 
Stephen  Austen,  at  the  Angel  over-against  the  North 
Door  of  St.  Paul's,  1728,"  on  p.  4,  is  the  following: 
"Gulliver's  Travels,  3  Vol.  8vo."  This  notice  may  refer 
to  a  Motte  ed.  with  the  spurious  Vol.  III. 

1731  (Motte)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  London.  Printed  for  Benjamin  Motte,  at 
the  Middle  Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-street,     m.dcc- 

XXXI. 
2  v. ;  cm.  16. 


134  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

For  this  edition  the  sheets  of  the  4th  ed.,  1727  (q.  v.), 
have  been  taken,  and  new  title  pages  set.  In  the  copy 
examined  there  is  no  separate  title-page  for  Part  I.  The 
copy  contains  the  12  pp.  of  Verses. 

DUBLIN 

1735  (Faulkner)  Volume  III,  of  the  Author's  Works. 
Containing  Travels  into  several  remote  Nations  of 
the  World.  In  Four  Parts,  viz.  I.  A  Voyage  to 
Lilliput.  II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  III.  A 
Voyage  to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg,  Glubb- 
dubdrib  and  Japan.  IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Country 
of  the  Houyhnhnms.  By  Lemuel  Gulliver,  first  a 
Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain  of  several  Ships. 
Retroq;  Valgus  abhorret  ab  his.  In  this  Impres- 
sion several  Errors  in  the  London  and  Dublin 
Editions  are  corrected.  Dublin :  Printed  by  and 
for  George  Faulkner,  Printer  and  Bookseller,  in 
Essex-Street,  opposite  to  the  Bridge.     Mdccxxxv. 

One  of  4  vols.;  pp.  xx,  404;  front,  (port,  of  Gulliver), 
5  maps  and  1  plan;   cm.  19*.     (Pis.  XVIII,  XIX.) 

Pp.  392-404  are  the  Verses.  Yale  University  Library 
reports  11  v.  in  this  series,  extending  to  1763.  The  vols, 
after  Vol.  IV  may  rather  belong  with  a  later  ed.  Cf. 
infra,  1743. 

1735  (Faulkner)  Volume  III  of  the  Author's  Works 
containing,  Travels  into  several  remote  Nations  of 
the  World.  In  four  parts,  viz.  [&c,  as  in  the  8vo 
ed.  of  the  same  year]. 

Pp.  xii  (unnumbered)  viii,  336;  front,  (port,  of  Gulli- 
ver) ;  5  maps  (1  wrongly  numbered,  and  2  folded)  and 
1  plan ;  cm.  16£. 

The  Verses  occupy  pp.  309-312,  332-336  (sic). 

Vol.  I  bears  the  title:  "The  Works  of  /.  5".,  D.D.,  D.S. 
P.D.  in  four  volumes.    Containing,  I.    The  Author's  Mis- 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  135 

cellanies  in  Prose.  II.  His  Poetical  Writings.  III. 
The  Travels  of  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver.  IV.  His  Papers 
relating  to  Ireland,  consisting  of  several  Treatises;  among 
which  are,  The  Drapier's  Letters  to  the  People  of  Ire- 
land, against  receiving  Wood's  Half-pence :  Also,  two 
Original   Drapier's  Letters,  never  before  published. 


"In  this  Edition  are  great  Alterations  and  Additions; 
and  likewise  many  Pieces  in  each  Volume,  never  before 
published.  

"Dublin :  Printed  by  and  for  George  Faulkner,  Printer 
and  Bookseller,  in  Essex  Street,  opposite  to  the  Bridge. 

M,DCC,XXXV." 

Issued  after  July.  Cf.  Motte  to  Swift,  Works,  etc., 
1843,  II,  747.    For  facs.  pis.,  cf.  London  ed.  1892. 

LONDON 

1742  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four  .  .  .  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  The  Fourth  Edition,  Corrected.  Lon- 
don :  Printed  for  Charles  Bathurst,  at  the  Cross- 
Keys  in  Fleet-Street,     mdccxui. 

Pp.  xii  (unnumbered),  352;  5  maps,  I  plan;  cm.  18. 
(Title-page  in  red  and  black.) 

Charles  Bathurst  is  said  to  have  been  a  partner  of  Ben- 
jamin Motte.  In  this  edition  he  has  apparently  borrowed 
from  the  Faulkner  text.     Cf.  p.  325.12. 

DUBLIN 

1743  (Faulkner)  Title-page  of  Vol.  Ill  like  that  of 
1735,  except  imprint,  which  reads:  "Dublin: 
Printed  by  and  for  George  Faulkner,  in  Essex- 
street,  opposite  to  the  Bridge,  mdccxliii  ;"  and 
omission  of  reference  to  the  London  and  Dublin 
editions. 

Pp.  xx,  382;  cm.  19J. 


136  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Vol.  I,  1746,  has  the  title  "The  Works  of  Jonathan 
Swift,  D.D.,  D.S.P.D.,  in  Eight  volumes,  containing" 
[subjects  of  each  vol.],  and  published  from  1741  to  1746. 
Dublin :  Printed  by  George  Faulkner,  in  Essex-Street. 
M,d,cc,xi,vi.  Vol.  Ill,  pp.  370-382,  contains  verses.  Vol. 
VII,  1751,  Letters  (1714-1738),  is  5th  ed.  Cf.  Faulkner 
ed.,  1735. 

LONDON 

1747  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  The  Fifth  Edition,  Corrected.  Lon- 
don :  Printed  for  Charles  Bathurst,  at  the  Cross- 
Keys  in  Fleet-Street,     mdccxlvii. 

Pp.  x,  296;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  16$ .  (Title-page  in  red 
and  black.) 

This  is  one  (labeled  12)  of  a  set  of  twelve  volumes 
published  between  1745  and  1749  with  different  imprints, 
the  other  volumes  being  "Miscellanies,"  Appears  generally 
to  follow  the  Faulkner  text. 

1751  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  The  Fifth  Edition,  Corrected.  Lon- 
don ;  Printed  for  Charles  Bathurst  and  sold  by  T. 
Woodward,  C.  Davis,  C.  Hitch,  R.  Dodsley,  and 
W.  Bowyer.     mdccli. 

Pp.  x  (unnumbered),  296;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  16$. 
(Title-page  in  red  and  black.) 

This  is  not  the  same  issue  as  that  of  1747,  but  is  reset, 
and  generally  follows  the  Faulkner  text.    One  of  14  vols.? 

DUBLIN 

1752  (Faulkner)  Vol.  Ill  of  the  Author's  Works,  Con- 
taining Travels  into  several  remote  Nations  of  the 
World.  In  Four  Parts,  viz.  .  .  .  [as  in  previous 
Faulkner  editions].  In  this  Impression  several 
Errors  in  the  former  London  and  Dublin  Editions 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  137 

are  corrected.     Dublin :  Printed  by  and  for  Geo. 
Faulkner,  in  Essex-Street.     Mdcclii. 

Pp.  xi  (+  iii  of  book-ads.),  viii  (Contents,  unnum- 
bered), 302;  front,  (port,  of  Gulliver),  5  maps,  1  plan; 
cm.  17.     Pp.  294-302  are  the  Verses. 

This  is  not  a  re-issue  of  the  12mo.  ed.  of  1735.  The 
portrait,  however,  is  the  same,  and  appears  to  have  been 
retouched.  The  text  follows  that  of  the  editions  of  1735, 
even  repeating  some  typographical  errors,  and  adding 
others.  In  Part  III,  Chapter  VII  is  misnumbered 
VI,  whereas  in  the  8vo.  ed.  of  1735,  it  is  misnumbered  V, 
as  in  all  of  the  Motte  editions.     Cf.  infra,  1772. 

LONDON 

1752  (Millar)  Remarks  on  the  Life  and  Writings  of 
Dr.  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean  of  S't.  Patrick's,  Dub- 
lin, in  a  series  of  Letters  from  John  Earl  of  Or- 
rery to  his  Son,  the  Honourable  Hamilton  Boyle. 
Haec  sunt  quae  nostra  liccat  te  voce  moneri. 
Vade,  Age. 

Virg.  yEneid.    3.  v.  461. 

London,  Printed  for  A.  Millar,  opposite  to  Cath- 
arine-Street in  the  Strand.    Mdcclii. 

Pp.  ii,  339   (5  11.  of  index);  port;  cm.  20i 

A  "Second  Edition,  Corrected,"  was  published  the  same 
year  by  Millar ;  and  an  edition  in  Dublin  by  Faulkner. 
Pp.  iv,  339  (5  11.  of  index)  ;  port,  of  Swift;  half-title  with 
vign. ;  cm.  17.  In  the  first  London  ed.  pp.  157-158  were 
cancelled  and  a  new  leaf  was  substituted. 

1755  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Gulliver  .  .  . 
Ships.  Four.  Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  Part 
II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  Part  III.  A  Voy- 
age to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg,  Glubbdub- 
drib,  and  Japan.  Part  IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Country 
of  the  Houyhnhnms.  London,  Printed  for  C.  Bath- 
urst.    mdcclv. 


138  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Pp.  viii,  4,  286;  4  plates,  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  27  (4to.). 

Vol.  I,  Part  II  of  The  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D., 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  accurately  revised  in  six 
volumes,  adorned  with  copper-plates ;  with  some  account 
of  the  author's  life,  and  notes  historical  and  explanatory, 
by  John  Hawkesworth.  London,  Printed  for  C.  Bathurst, 
C.  Davis,  C.  Hitch  and  L.  Hawes,  J.  Hodges,  R.  and  J. 
Dodsley,  and  W.  Bowyer.  mdcclv.  (Title  in  red  and 
black.)  The  copper  line-engravings,  drawn  and  engraved 
by  I.  S.  Muller,  have  an  ornamental  border  an  inch  wide, 
which  was  omitted  in  subsequent  Hawkesworth  8vo.  eds. 
(Fore-title.)  Vols.  VII  and  VIII  are  Letters  from  1703 
to  1740.    Printed  by  T.  Davies  and  others,  London,  1766. 

A  dealer's  catalogue  advertises  this  ed.  in  14  vols.  4to, 
1755-68?    An  ed.  in  12  vols.  8vo,  was  also  issued  in  1755? 

1757  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  London :  Printed  for  Charles  Bathurst, 
at  the  Cross-Keys,  in  Fleet-Street,     m.dcc.lvii. 

Pp.  xii,  264,  and  xii,  283(5)  ;  4  woodcuts;  cm.  16$. 

No  maps  nor  diagram ;  in  form  much  like  the  24mo.  ed. 
of  Motte,  1727,  but  with  the  text  changes  found  in  prev- 
ious  Bathurst  eds. 

EDINBURGH 

1757  (Hamilton)  The  Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift, 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin.  Edinburgh :  Print- 
ed for  G.  Hamilton,  J.  Balfour,  &  L.  Hunter. 
m,dcc,lvii.     [8  v.] 

Pp.  viii,  3-392;   cm.  16*. 

V.  2.  Gulliver's  Travels  occupies  the  whole  of  this 
volume  to  p.  299,  but  has  no  separate  title-page.     B.  P.  L* 


*  Boston   Public   Library.     Copy   not  examined.     Cita- 
tions from  this  source  have  not  been  verified. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  139 


LONDON 


1760  Bathurst  ed.  with  t.  p.  like  that  of  1755. 

Pp.  xvi,  292;    5  maps,  1  plan;    cm.  \7l/2. 
One  of  14  vols.(?)     Hawkesworth  text. 

EDINBURGH 

1761  An  Ed.  of  Swift's  Works  in  8  vols.,  16mo,  is  listed 
as  of  Edinburgh,  1761. 

LONDON 

1765  (Bathurst)  The  Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift, 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin.  Vol.  II.  [Vol. 
II,  Part  II.]  Containing  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver's 
Travels  into  several  remote  Nations  of  the  World. 
Parts  I  and  II  [Parts  III  and  IV]. 
London :  Printed  for  C.  Bathurst,  in  Fleet-Street. 
mdcclxv. 

2  v.;  pp.  xx,  200,  and  xvii-xxvi,  201-408;  front,  (port, 
of  Gulliver),  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  13. 

V.  2  of  24  v.,  1765-75,  according  to  Yale  University 
Library.  Editor,  John  Hawkesworth  ("Sign"  for  "sign- 
post," Pt.  II,  Chap.  VIII,  p.  185). 

GLASGOW 

1765  (Knox)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Glasgow :  Printed  by  James  Knox,  and 
sold  at  his  Shop,  near  the  Head  of  the  Salt-mercat. 

M.DCC.LXV. 

Pp.  vi   (Contents  unnumbered),  3-9,  10-298;  cm.  16i. 
Evidently  the  Hawkesworth  text. 

LONDON 

1766  (Bathurst)    Travels   .   .   .   World.     Gulliver   .   .   . 


140  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Ships.  Four.  Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  Part 
II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  Part  III.  A  Voyage 
to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg,  Glubbdubdrib, 
and  Japan.  Part  IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Country  of 
the  Houyhnhnms.     London :  Printed  for  C.  Bath- 

Urst,    MDCCLXVI. 

Pp.  (2)  xvi,  292;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  17.     (Fore-title.) 

Vol.  II  of  the  Works,  &c,  accurately  revised,  in  24 
vols.:  1-12  (1766)  The  Works  &c,  in  12  vols.;  vols.  13-18 
(1766)  the  Six  Last  Vols,  of  the  Works  &c,  with  an 
Index  to  the  whole;  vols.  19-21,  Letters  from  1703 
to  1740  (5th  ed.)  ;  vols.  22-24,  1767,  Letters  from  1710  to 
1742  (collected  by  Deane  Swift;  3rd  ed.  1769).  (Fore- 
title  to  vol.  II :  The  Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean 
of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  Vol.  II,  London:  Printed  for  C. 
Bathurst,  in  Fleet-Street,  mdccucvi.)  Seven  different 
imprints  in  the  set. 

1766  (Turnbull)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  By  Cap- 
tain Lemuel  Gulliver.  London :  Printed  for  P. 
Turnbull   in   St.    Paul's   Church-yard,     mdcclxvi. 

2  vols.  Pp.,  v.  1,  xviii,  86,  ii  (unnumbered),  and  95,  ii 
(unnumbered)  ;  v.  2,  ii,  87,  iii  (unnumbered),  and  109,  iv 
(unnumbered)  ;  cm.  19£. 

This  edition  follows  the  Motte  text,  and  has  the  Verses. 

1768  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Gulliver  .  .  . 
Ships.  Four.  Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  Part 
II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  Part  III.  A  Voyage 
to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnag,  Glubbdubdrib, 
and  Japan.  Part  IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Country  of 
the  Houyhnhnms.  London :  Printed  for  C.  Bath- 
urst.    mdcclxviii. 

Pp.  xxii,  410;  4  plates,  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  21. 

Vol.  II  of  the  Works  &c,  accurately  revised,  in  12  vols., 
with  copper  plates  by  J.  S.  Muller.  Fore-title,  "The 
Works"  &c,  in  red  and  black.  Editor,  John  Hawkes- 
worth.  V.  I  has  the  imprint  "London :  Printed  for 
W.  Bowyer,  C.  Bathurst,  ...  and  B.  Collins;"  Vols.  2  to 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  141 

6  and  12  have  the  imprint  of  C.  Bathurst;  vols.  7  to 
11,  that  of  W.  Bowyer,  C.  Bathurst  &c.  The  Forster  Li- 
brary cat.  lists  the  foil,  under  "Works.  25  vol.  8vo" :  Vols. 
1-14,  1768;  vols.  15,  16.  First  collected  by  Deane  Swift, 
and  now  reprinted  with  addit.  notes,  1775;  vol.  17,  1775; 
vols.  18-23,  Letters,  1703-1740;  vol.  24,  appar.  a  supple- 
ment; vol.  25.    "Suppl.  II  [XXV]." 

EDINBURGH 

1768  (Donaldson)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Gulliver  .  .  . 
Ships.  In  the  Works  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Swift  .  .  . 
Edinburgh,  mdcclxviii. 

V.  4,  pp.  307-390,  v.  5,  pp.  ?  ("copy  not  available"). 

V.  1  has  the  imprint  "Edinburgh :  Printed  for  A.  Don- 
aldson mdcclxviii.  13  v.;  cm.  17.  B.  P.  L.  Copy  not 
examined. 

DUBLIN 

1772  (Faulkner)  The  Travels  of  Lemuel  Gulliver,  first 
a  Surgeon  and  then  a  Captain  in  several  Ships, 
into  several  remote  Nations  of  the  World.  In  four 
parts.  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  II.  A  Voyage  to 
Brobdingnag.  III.  A  Voyage  to  Laputa,  Balni- 
barbi,  Luggnag,  Glubbdubdrib,  and  Japan.  IV.  A 
Voyage  to  the  Country  of  the  Houyhnhnms.  Dub- 
lin :  Printed  by  George  Faulkner.  mdcclxxii. 
Pp.  viii,  404;  port,  only;  cm.  20£. 

Vol.  Ill  of  The  Works  of  the  Reverend  Dr.  Jonathan 
Swift,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin.  In  twenty  volumes. 
Containing  [contents  specified  in  double  col.].  Includes 
three  of  the  Verses  of  the  Motte  ed.  of  1727.  Vol.  I 
has  port,  of  Swift.     Copy  in  V.  &  A.  Mus.,  London 

1774  (Williams)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Four.  [Heads  page  3 — "The  Publisher  to 
the  Reader."] 

Pp.  x,  3-310  (misnum.  210)  ;   cm.  17. 

Is  a  part  of  Vol.  IV  of  "The  Works  of  Jonath.n  Swift, 


142  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

D.D :  D.S.P.D.  With  notes  historical  and  critical  by  J. 
Hawkesworth,  L.L.D.  and  others.  Printed  for  J.  Williams, 
Dublin:  1774."  Set  of  15  vols.,  each  bearing  the  above 
title.  Each  Part  has  its  sub-title  at  the  head  of  its  Chap.  1. 
Vol.  IV  ends  at  p.  414. 

Appears  to  be  the  Hawkesworth  text,  and  contains  notes 
of  Hawkesworth  found  in  earlier  eds.,  voluminous  quota- 
tions from  Orrery,  and  notes  of  Mr.  Deane  Swift.  Claims 
to  be  the  first  edition  to  print  Swift's  Letters  in  chron- 
ological order. 

LONDON 

1781  A  Hawkesworth  Ed.  of  Swift's  works  in  18  vols., 
sm.  8vo,  is  listed  as  of  London,  1781. 

1782  (Harrison)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  In  two  Volumes.  By  Dean  Swift.  Lon- 
don: Printed  for  Harrison  and  Co.,  No.  18,  Pater- 
noster-Row.    M  DCC  LXXXII. 

Pp.  140;  cm.  20§. 

Printed  in  double  columns,  in  the  Novelist's  Magazine, 
Vol.  IX.  Four  engravings  after  Stothard,  by  Angus, 
Heath,  and  Walker.  One  map  and  one  plate  printed  in 
the  text.  No  separate  title-page  to  Vol.  II.  Reversion 
to  the  Motte  text. 

1784  (Bathurst)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Four.  Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput  [&c, 
as  in  ed.  of  1768]. 

Pp.  xiv  (2  blank),  375;  cm.  22.  (Title-page  in  red  and 
black.) 

Vol.  VI  of  the  Works  &c,  arranged,  revised,  and  cor- 
rected, with  notes,  by  Thomas  Sheridan,  A.  M.  A  new 
ed.,  in  17  vols.  This  vol.  has  the  imprint  of  C.  Bath- 
urst; vols.  1,  3,  4  and  5,  that  of  Bathurst  and  others;  the 
other  vols.,  that  of  W.  Strahan  and  others.  Vol.  I  is  the 
Life  of  Swift,  with  ports,  of  Swift  and  Sheridan.  A 
second  ed.  like  the  above  was  issued  in  1787;  also  8vo 
editions  in  19  vols,  in  1801,  and  1808. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  143 

1784  (Elliot)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 
Four. 

Pp.  xii,  450;  4  plates,  5  maps,  1  plan,  all  by  A.  Bell; 
cm.  17. 

Notes  by  J.  Hawkesworth,  and  others.  Includes  three 
of  the  Verses.  The  general  title-page  of  the  "Works"  &c 
has  the  imprint,  "London :  Printed  for  Charles  Elliot, 
Edinburgh,  mdccucxxiv."  The  half-title  reads  "Dr. 
Swift's  Works,  complete  in  eighteen  volumes.     Vol.  V." 

EDINBURGH 

1787  (Elliot)  The  Travels  of  Lemuel  Gulliver  into  sev- 
eral remote  Nations  of  the  World.  Who  was  first 
a  Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain  of  several  Ships. 
In  four  Parts.  Illustrated  with  Copperplates. 
Edinburgh :  Printed  for  C.  Elliot,     m.dcc.lxxxvii. 

Pp.  viii,  9-352;  4  plates,  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  16§. 
Ten  plates,  by  A.  Bell,  on  hinges  at  end  of  volume. 
Pp.  345-352  are  the  Verses. 

LONDON 

1792  (Harrison)  A  reprint  of  the  edition  of  1782,  by 
the  same  publisher. 

1808  (Walker)  Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  remote 
Nations  of  the  World.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D., 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin.  With  a  sketch  of 
his  life.  London;  Printed  for  J.  Walker;  A.  John- 
son [&c  &c.]. 

Pp.  xii  (unn.)  xiv,  15-322;    front.;    cm.  \2l/2. 
Engraved  title-page,  extra;    sep.  t.  p.  to  Pt.  I. 

GAINSBOROUGH 

1809  (Mozley)  Travels  .  .  .  World.     Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 


144  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Swift  .  .  .  Dean.     A  new  edition.     Gainsborough: 
Printed  by  and  for  H.  Mozley.     1809. 
Pp.,  viii,  287;  front,  after  Stothard;  cm.  13i. 

EDINBURGH 

1812  (Ballantyne)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Four.  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  II.  A 
Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  III.  A  Voyage  to  La- 
puta,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg,  Glubbdubdrib,  and  Ja- 
pan. IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Country  of  the  Houy- 
hnhnms.    Splendide  mendax.    Hor. 

Pp.  1-114;  cm.  23. 

The  first  of  five  reprints  in  Popular  Romances,  with  an 
introductory  dissertation  by  Henry  Weber,  Esq.,  published 
at  Edinburgh  by  John  Ballantyne  and  Company,  Silvester 
Doig  and  Andrew  Stirling,  Edinburgh ;  Longman,  Hurst, 
Rees,  Orme,  and  Brown,  and  John  Murray,  London. 
1812. 

1814     (Constable)   Title  like  preceding. 
Pp..  (4)382;   cm.  21. 

V.  12  of  "The  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.,  Dean  of 
St.  Patrick's,  Dublin ;  containing  additional  letters,  tracts, 
and  poems,  not  hitherto  published;  with  notes  and  a  life 
of  the  author,  by  Walter  Scott,  Esq.,  Edinburgh : 
Printed  for  Archibald  Constable  and  Co.,  Edinburgh ; 
White,  Cochrane,  and  Co.  and  Gale,  Curtis,  and  Fenner, 
London  ;    and  John  Cumming,  Dublin.     1814." 

An  ed.  with  Scott's  notes,  &c,  was  published  in  19  vols. 
8vo.,  both  at  London    and  at  Boston,  in  1883. 

GLASGOW 

1814  (Lumsden)  The  Adventures  of  Captain  Gulliver 
in  a  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  Glasgow :  Published  by 
J.  Lumsden  &  Son.     1814. 

Pp.  47;  wood  cut  front,  and  illus.  in  text;  cm.  10. 
New  Ed.  in  1815.     ("Ross's  Juvenile  Library.") 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  145 


LONDON 


1819  (Walker)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  With  a  sketch  of  his  life.  London: 
Printed  for  J.  Walker;  F.  C.  and  J.  Rivington; 
[&c  &c.].  By  S.  Hamilton,  Whitefriars.    1819. 

Pp.  xii  (unn.),  xiv,  15-322;    front.;    cm.  14^4   (uncut). 
Engraved  title-page,  extra;  sep.  t.  p.  to  Pt.  1. 

1823  (McLean)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 
Four.  Part  1  [&c  as  in  Ballantyne  ed.  of  1912.] 
Embellished  with  engravings.  London :  Printed 
for  Hector  McLean.     1823. 

Pp.  10  (unnumbered),  i-xiv,  15-420;  4  plates;  cm.  14$. 

V.  2  of  "The  Select  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift"  &c,  in 
five  volumes.    Plates  engraved  by  Stalker  and  Noble. 

EDINBURGH 

1824  (Constable)  "Second  edition"  [with  same  titles 
as  ed.  of  1814  by  same  publisher,  this  being  v.  11 
of  the  series  ( 16  v.)  ] .  Printed  for  Archibald  Con- 
stable and  Co.,  Edinburgh ;  and  Hurst,  Robinson, 
and  Co.,  London. 

Pp.  (2)378;   cm.  21. 

The  second  edition   edited  by   Sir  Walter   Scott.     See 
1814. 

LONDON 

1824  (Baynes)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  With  the  life  of  the  author.  London : 
W.  Baynes  and  Son  .  .  .  1824. 

Pp.  278;  plate;  cm.  12i. 

Engraved   title-page,    drawn  by   H.    Corbould   and   en- 
graved by  G.  Corbould.    B.  P.  L.    Copy  not  examined. 


146  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

1824  (?)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships  Four, 
&c  (as  in  Edinburgh  ed.  of  1812). 

Pp.  1-209;  cm.  ?.  (In  "The  Novels  of  Swift,  Bage, 
and  Cumberland?  Ballantyne's  Novelists'  Library,  v.  9. 
London.     1824.)     B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

1826  (Jones)  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan  Swift, 
D. D.  In  two  volumes.  London :  Published  by 
Jones  &  Company,  3,  Acton  Place,  Kingsland  Road. 
1826. 

Pp.  xxviii,  200,  and  viii,  210;  port,  of  Swift,  1  plate, 
2  engraved  t.  p.'s  (See  1830)  ;  cm.  10£  (uncut).  ("Uni- 
versity Edition";  Labeled  "Diamond  Classics.") 

1828  (Jones)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Jona- 
than Swift,  D.D.  With  a  sketch  of  his  life.  Lon- 
don: Published  by  Jones  &  Company,  [&c.].    1828. 

Pp.  xii,  103;  cm.  18. 

"Jones's  Cabinet  Edition  of  Classic  Tales." 

1829  (Brown)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  With  the  life  of  the  author.  London : 
Printed  and  published  by  R.  Brown,  26,  St.  John- 
street,  Clerkenwell,  1829. 

Pp.  (2)  ii,  140;  5  f.  p.  wood  cuts;  cm.  19§  (uncut). 

The  plate  opposite  p.  117  has  reference  to  p.  209  and 
may  have  been  made  for  another  edition. 

1830  (Jones)  [Reissue  of  the  edition  of  1826,  apparent- 
ly the  same  sheets,  but  with  the  imprint]  "Lon- 
don :  Published  by  Jones  &  Company,  Temple  of 
the  Muses,  (late  Lackington's)  Finsbury  Square. 
1830. 

1837     (Allman)   Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.     Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.     With  a  short  biographical  account  of 
the  author.     London :  Printed  for  T.  Allman,  42, 
Holborn  Hill,   1837. 
Pp.  342;  front.;  cm.  13. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  147 

1843  (Bohn)  The  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.,  and 
Dean  of  Saint  Patrick's,  Dublin :  Containing  inter- 
esting and  valuable  papers,  not  hitherto  published. 
In  two  volumes.  With  memoir  of  the  author,  by- 
Thomas  Roscoe;  portrait  and  autograph  [Extract 
from  Sir  Walter  Scott] .  London :  Henry  G.  Bohn, 
York  Street,  Covent  Garden.     1843. 

2  v.,  pp.  lxxxiv,  844,  and  iv,  854;  cm.  24. 

Printed  in  double  columns.     Gulliver's  Travels,  pp.  1-81. 

1844  (Allman)  Reissue  of  the  edition  of  1837  by  T. 
Allman. 

Only  111  cm.,  and  32  mo.  instead  of  24  mo. 

1845  (Nodes)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift  .  .  . 
Dean.  With  a  sketch  of  his  life.  London :  George 
Nodes,  1845. 

Pp.  xvi,  271;  plate;  cm.  12. 

Engraved  t.  p.  drawn  by  K.  Meadows  and  engraved  by 
T.  Phillibrown.     B.  P.  L,.     Copy  not  examined. 

1847  (Burns)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  A  new  edition,  re- 
vised for  general  use.  London :  James  Burns,  17, 
Portman  Street,  Portman  Square,  1847. 

Pp.  viii,  216;  cm.  13|. 

4  full-page  plates  by  Phiz,  engraved  by  Cooper. 

EDINBURGH 

1859  (Black)  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput,  by  Lemuel  Gulli- 
ver, with  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  Swift.  Edinburgh  : 
Adam  and  Charles  Black.     1859. 

Pp.  vi,  127;  cm.  16. 

Engraved  title.     Harvard  U.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

LONDON 

1864     (Beeton)   Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.     Swift 


148  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

.  .  .  Dean.  With  a  memoir  of  the  author.  Illus- 
trated with  upwards  of  300  wood-engravings,  from 
designs  by  J.  G.  Thomson,  engraved  by  W.  L. 
Thomas.  London:  S.  O.  Beeton,  248,  Strand, 
W.C.     1864. 

Pp.  xxxvi,  364;  extra  col'd  t.  p.  and  col'd  front.;  cm.  21. 
Gen.  half-title,  and  half-title  to  each  Part. 

Contains  the  Verses  of  the  Motte  ed.  of  1727,  and  two 
South  Sea  ballads. 

1864  (Bohn)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift  .  .  . 
Dean.  With  a  life  of  the  author.  Embellished  with 
numerous  wood-engravings.  London :  Henry  G. 
Bohn,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden,  1864. 

Pp.,  (4  unnumbered)  xxxii,  306;  front.;  cm.  22. 

Contains  the  Verses  &c  in  the  Beeton  ed.  of  the  same 
year. 

1866  (Nimmo)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick 
[sic].  With  prefatory  memoir  by  George  Saints- 
bury,  and  one  hundred  and  eighty  coloured  and 
sixty  plain  illustrations.  London :  John  C.  Nimmo, 
14,  King  William  Street,  Strand,  W.  C.  1886. 

Pp.  xvi,  430;   hf.  t. ;   vign. ;   cm.  26. 

Evidently  follows  the  Hawkesworth  text.  The  illus.,  by 
V.  A.  Poirson,  are  those  of  the  Paris  ed.  of  A.  Quantain 
(N.D.). 

1876  (No  imprint)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four. 
Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships.  First  published  in  1726.  Lon- 
don:  1876. 

Pp.  1-178;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  ? 

In  "The  Choice  Works  of  Dean  Swift."  B.  P.  L. 
Copy  not  examined.  Cf.  1904.  The  title  is  a  half-title 
only,  with  no  imprint. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  149 

LONDON-NEW  YORK 

1880  (Routledge)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  London :  George  Routledge  and  Sons, 
Broadway,  Ludgate  Hill.  New  York:  416,  Broome 
Street.     1880. 

Pp.  xvi,  361  (6  numbered  +  12)  ;  2  col'd  plates;  cm.  17. 

1880  (Routledge)  Re-issue  of  preceding  ed.,  with  N.  Y. 
imprint:  "9  Lafayette  Place,"  and  without  the 
plates.     Cm.  18. 

The  cover  has  "Excelsior  Series." 

LONDON 

1882  (Nimmo)  Jonathan  Swift.  Travels  .  .  .  World. 
Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships.  Four.  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lil- 
liput.  II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  III.  A 
Voyage  to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnag,  Glubb- 
dubrib,  and  Japan.  IV.  A  Voyage  to  the  Coun- 
try of  the  Houyhnhnms.  " Splendid e  Mendax." 
— Hor.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick. 
With  five  etchings  and  portrait  by  Ad.  Lalauze. 
London.  J.  C.  Nimmo  and  Bain,  14,  King  Wil- 
liam Street,  Strand,  W.C.     1882. 

Pp.  xliv,  363;  cm.  221  (uncut).     (Half-title) 
Title-page  in  red  and  black.     150  copies  on  large  paper. 
Contains  some  of  the  Faulkner  emendations. 

1884  (Paul)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 
[London:  Kegan  Paul,  Trench  &  Co.] 

Pp.  91-159;  cm  16  (uncut). 

In  "Selections  from  the  prose  writings  of  Jonathan 
Swift.  With  a  preface  and  notes  by  Stanley  Lane- 
Poole." 

Title  of  volume  in  red  and  black. 


150  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

1886  (Nimmo)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 
By  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick  [sic]. 
With  prefatory  memoir  by  George  Saintsbury,  and 
one  hundred  and  eighty  coloured  and  sixty  plain 
illustrations.  London.  John  C.  Nimmo,  14,  King 
William  Street,  Strand,  W.C.     1886. 

Pp.  (i)xvi,  430;  cm.  25§  (uncut).  (Half-title.  Title 
in  red  and  black.) 

LONDON,  ETC. 

1890  (Routledge)  Gulliver's  Travels  exactly  reprinted 
from  the  first  edition,  and  other  works,  by  Jonathan 
Swift.  With  some  account  of  Cyrano  de  Bergerac, 
and  of  his  voyages  to  the  sun  and  moon.  Edited  by 
Henry  Morley,  LL.D.,  Emeritus  professor  of  Eng- 
lish language  and  literature,  University  College, 
London.  London,  George  Routledge  and  Sons, 
Limited.  Broadway,  Ludgate  Hill.  Glasgow,  Man- 
chester and  New  York.     1890. 

Pp.  343(1);   cm.  20. 

Forms  a  part  of  Vol.  XI  of  "The  Carisbrook  Library," 
extending  to  p.  445(3),  with   fore-title  and  half-title. 

This  is  a  reprint  of  the  second  edition,  and  the  repro- 
duced title-pages  are  "made  up" — not  facsimiles. 

1892  (Nelson)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  With  in- 
troduction and  explanatory  notes  by  Robert  Mac- 
kenzie, Author  of  ''The  19th  Century,"  "America," 
&c.  With  facsimiles  of  the  original  maps,  etc.,  of 
the  work,  and  twelve  illustrations.  London :  T. 
Nelson  and  Sons,  Paternoster  Row.  Edinburgh ; 
and  New  York.     1892. 

Pp.,   (10)xiv,  316(8);  cm.  19. 

Contains  facs.  of  port,  and  t.  p.  of  the  Faulkner  12mo. 
ed.  of  1735,  but  text  follows  different  editors,  and  is  ex- 
purgated. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  151 

1893  (Chatto)  Jonathan  Swift.  A  biographical  and 
critical  study,  by  John  Churton  Collins  [&c.].  Lon- 
don :  Chatto  &  Windus,  Piccadilly,  1893. 

Pp.  xvi,  280(32)  ;   hf.  t.;    cm.  19. 

Contains  reference  to  printing  of  Gulliver's  Travels  in 
Parker's  Penny  Post  in  1726-27;  also,  sources  for  Gulli- 
ver's Travels,  with  passages  taken  by  Swift  from  Sturmy's 
Mariners'  Magazine,  London,  1679. 

1893  (Routledge)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  London.  George  Routledge  and  Sons, 
Limited.     1893. 

Pp.,  (l)iv,  361;  cm.  18:  (Half-title— "Gulliver's 
Travels.") 

"Sir  John  Lubbock's  hundred  books"  is  at  top  of  half- 
title  and  title-page.     B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

LONDON-NEW  YORK 

1894  (Macmillan)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  With  a  preface  by  Henry  Craik,  and  one 
hundred  illustrations  by  Charles  E.  Brock.  Lon- 
don. Macmillan  and  Co.  and  New  York.  1894. 
All  rights  reserved. 

Pp.  xxx,  382(2);  cm.  18;    (Half-title). 

Separate  title  to  each  part,  and  half-titles  with  maps 
on  verso.  This  is.  textually  and  typographically,  a  repro- 
duction of  the  4th  (8vo.)  Motte  ed.,  with  expurgations. 

LONDON 

1896  (Bliss)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.   London :  Bliss,  Sands  &  Foster.   Mdcccxcvi. 

Pp.  vi  (unnumbered),  7-308;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  20. 
(Half-title.) 

Ornamental  title-page  in  red  and  black. 

A  reversion  to  the  Motte  text ;  printed  on  frail  paper. 
Cf.  ed.  of  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  N.  Y.,  of  same  year. 


152  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

1896  (Dent)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Jonathan 
Swift,  mdcccxcvi  :  Published  by  J.  M.  Dent  and 
Co. :  Aldine  House,  London,  W.C. 

Pp.  xxii,  387;  port.,  map;  cm.  15.  Notes  338-405. 
(Fore-title  "The  Temple  Classics  for  Young  People"). 

Harvard  U.  L.  Copy  not  examined.  Reprinted  1897, 
1899,  1901,  1904. 

1899  (Bell)  Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan  Swift.  Ed- 
ited by  G.  Ravenscroft  Dennis,  B.  A.,  Lond.  Lon- 
don.    George  Bell  and  Sons.     1899. 

Pp.  xxxii,  308;    port.,  5  maps,  1  plan;   cm.  18. 
(V.  8  of  "The  prose  works  of  Jonathan  Swift,  edited  by 
Temple  Scott"). 

Facs.  title-pages.     B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined 

LONDON-NEW  YORK 

1900  (Lane)  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan  Swift. 
Illustrated  by  Herbert  Cole.  London  and  New 
York ;  John  Lane,  the  Bodley  Head.     1900. 

Pp.  xx,  (3)355;  port,  by  Herbert  Cole,  1899;  cm.  19. 
(Engraved  fore-title;    engraved  half-title). 

Leaves  with  cuts  included  in  pagination;  other  cuts  in 
text.    Harvard  U.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

LONDON 

1901  (Dent)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Jona- 
than Swift.  With  twelve  illustrations  by  A.  Rack- 
ham.  London:  J.  M.  Dent  &  Company,  Aldine 
House,  Bedford  Street,  Covent  Garden.     1901. 

Pp.  xvi,  363(3)  ;  cm.  15.  (Fore-title— "The  Temple 
Classics  for  Young  People.") 

Colored  front.;  title-page  with  colored  border.  In  this 
Ed.  and  that  of  1905  the  title-page  is  followed  directly 
by  the  "Contents." 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  153 

1904     (Dent)  Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  remote  na- 
tions of  the  world.     Jonathan  Swift,     mdcccciv. 
Published  by  J.  M.  Dent  and  Co.:  Aldine  House. 
London.     W.   C. 
Pp.  xxii,  406(2)  ;  front,  (port,  of  Gulliver)  ;  cm.  15. 

(Fore-title:  "The  Temple  Classics  Edited  by  Israel 
Gollancz,  M.A.")     Title-page  with  black  border. 

The  text  is  printed  from  the  Bathurst  ed.  of  1747 
(Faulkner  text)  ;  appendix  by  Aitken. 

1904  (Chatto)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.     London:  Chatto  &  Windus.     1904. 

Pp.  1-178;  cm.  19.  (Fore-title— "The  choice  works  of 
Dean  Swift.") 

(The  choice  works  of  Dean  Swift  in  prose  and  verse. 
Reprinted  from  the  original  editions.  A  new  edition  with 
memoir,  portrait,  and  illustrations.  Pp.  lxxxii,  678.  Port., 
5  maps,  1  plan.) 

B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

1905  (Dent)  The  same  as  the  Ed.  of  1901.  First  pub- 
lished in  1900;  "Second  edition,  March,  1903." 

Lacks  "List  of  Illustrations." 

LONDON-NEW  YORK 

1906  (Routledge)  Gulliver's  Travels  and  other  works 
by  Jonathan  Swift  exactly  reprinted  from  the  first 
edition  and  edited  with  some  account  of  Cyrano  de 
Bergerac  and  of  his  voyages  to  the  sun  and  moon 
by  the  late  Henry  Morley,  LL.D.  With  a  note 
on  the  name  "Gulliver"  by  J.  P.  Gilson  (of  the 
British  Museum).  London:  George  Routledge 
and  Sons,  Limited.  New  York :  E.  P.  Dutton  and 
Co.     1906. 

Pp.  445(1)  ;  front,  (port.)  ;  cm.  20. 

The  text  is  that  of  the  second  ed.  —  the  least  accurate 


154  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

of  all  the  Motte  eds.  of  1726  —  and  contains  none  of  the 
suppressed  nor  garbled  passages  later  restored  by  Faulk- 
ner and  modern  editors. 

1908  (Greening)  Travels  ....  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Vol.  I  [Vol.  II].  By  Dean  Swift.  London, 
Greening  &  Co.,  Ltd.    1908. 

2  v.;  pp.  v.  1,  xvi,  174(2)  ;  v.  2,  (2)vi,  172;  cm.  17  (un- 
cut).    (Half-title.) 

1909  (Dent)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Jonathan 
Swift.  Illustrated  by  Arthur  Rackham.  London, 
J.  M.  Dent  &  Co.  New  York.  E.  P.  Dutton  & 
Co.     1909. 

Pp.  (2) xvi,  291;    front.;   cm.  29  (uncut).     (Half-title.) 

750  copies  printed.     Ord.  ed.  (23  cm.)  lacks  extra  leaf 
and  extra  illus. 

LONDON 

1910  (Macmillan)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  With  a  preface  by  Henry  Craik  and  one 
hundred  illustrations  by  Charles  E.  Brock.  Mac- 
millan and  Co.,  Limited,  St.  Martin's  Street,  Lon- 
don,  1910. 

Pp.  xxx,  382(32);  cm.  18.     (Half-title). 

Separate   title-page  to   each   Part,   and  half-titles   with 
maps  on  verso. 

Like  the  edition  of  1894. 

1913  (Bell)  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan  Swift, 
D.D.  Edited,  with  introduction  and  notes,  by  G. 
Ravenscroft  Dennis.  London :  G.  Bell  and  Sons, 
Ltd.     1913. 

Pp.  xxxii,  308;  5  maps.  1  plan,  2  facs.  title-pages;  cm. 
16J.     ("Bonn's  Popular  Library.") 

B.  P.  L.    Copy  not  examined. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  155 

1914  (Bell)  The  Prose  Works  of  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D. 
Vol.  VIII.  Gulliver's  Travels.  Edited  by  G. 
Ravenscroft  Dennis.  London,  G.  Bell  and  Sons, 
Ltd.     1914. 

Pp.  xxxii,  308(32)  ;  front,  (port,  of  Gulliver)  ;  5  maps, 
1  plan,  2  title-pages  in  facsimile;    cm.  18. 

Fore-title  —  "Bonn's  Standard  Library.  The  Prose 
Works  of  Jonathan  Swift  edited  by  Temple  Scott.  Vol. 
VIII"-^)f  12  vols. 

LONDON,  ETC. 

1919  (Milford)  Gulliver's  Travels,  The  Tale  of  a  Tub, 
and  The  Battle  of  the  Books.  By  Jonathan  Swift. 
Humphrey  Milford:  Oxford  University  Press. 
London,  Edinburgh,  Glasgow,  New  York,  Toronto, 
Melbourne,  Cape  Town,  Bombay.     1919. 

Pp.  viii,  355,  G.  T.;   [entire  vol.  599;]   front,   (port.); 

cm.  m. 

Reproduces  title-pages  of  the  Motte  ed.  of  1727  and  ap- 
pears to  have  followed  that  text,  but  adopts  some  of 
Faulkner's  changes,  although  the  editor  alludes  to  the 
Faulkner  ed.  as  "issued  in  spite  of  Swift's  protests."  The 
editor  also,  following  Hawkesworth  and  Dennis,  attempts 
to  improve  Swift's  text,  and  in  one  instance  violates 
Swift's  rule  on  tautology  (Pt.  Ill,  Chap.  V,  p.  219,  last 
par.)  by  the  unnecessary  repetition  of  the  word  "pro- 
ject." Faulkner  was  the  first  to  print  this  phrase  cor- 
rectly- 


PARIS 


FRANCE 


1727  (Martin)  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  A  Paris,  Chez 
Gabriel  Martin,  rue  S.  Jacques,  vis-a-vis  la  rue  du 
Platre,  a  l'Etoile.  m.dcc.xxvii.  Avec  Privilege 
du  Roy. 

2  v.;  v.  2,  pp.  viii,  286;  cm.  14§. 

Vign.   (man  in  armour)   on  t.  p.     Only  v.  2  examined. 


156  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

1727     (Martin)  Voyages  de  Gulliver.     Seconde  Edition. 
A  Paris,  rue  S.  Jacques 

Gabriel  Martin,  vis-a-vis  la  rue  du  Platre,  a 

l'Etoile. 
Hyppolite-Louis,     Guerin,     a     S.     Thomas 
Chez  -j      d'Aquin,  visa-vis   S.   Yves  et  Quay  des 
Augustins. 
Dans  la  boutique  de  la  V.  Coustelier,  chez 
Jacques  Guerin. 

m.  dcc.  xxvu.  Avec  Privilege  du  Roy. 
(PI.  XXII.) 

2  v.  in  1;  pp.  xxxii  (28  numbered),  176,  and  iv,  177- 
379(3)  ;  4  plates;   cm.  14.    No  maps  nor  plan. 

In  his  preface  the  Abbe  Desfontaines,  after  having  criti- 
cized Gulliver's  Travels  for  certain  faults,  which  he  sum- 
marizes in  these  words : — "des  choses  qui  rendues  litterale- 
ment  en  Francois,  auroient  paru  indecentes,  pitoiables ;  im- 
pertinentes ;  auroient  revoke  le  bon  gout  qui  regne  en 
France,  m'auroient  moi-meme  couvert  de  confusion,  & 
m'auroient  infailliblement  attire  de  justes  reproches,  si 
j'avois  ete  asses  foible  &  asses  imprudent,  pour  les  exposer 
aux  yeux  du  Public"  (p.  xi) — goes  on  to  say: — "je  declare 
que  j'ai  crfl  devoir  prendre  le  parti  de  les  supprimer  en- 
tierement.  Si  j'ai  peut-etre  laisse  encore  quelque  chose  de 
ce  genre  dans  ma  Traduction,  je  prie  le  Public  de  songer 
qu'il  est  naturel  a  un  Traducteur  de  se  laisser  gagner,  & 
d'avoir  quelque-fois  un  peu  trop  d'indulgence  pour  son 
Auteur.  Au  reste,  je  me  suis  figure,  que  j'etois  capable 
de  suppleer  a  ces  defauts  &  de  reparer  ces  pertes,  par  le 
secours  de  mon  imagination,  &  par  de  certains  tours  que 
je  donnerois  aux  choses  meme  qui  me  deplaisoient.  J'en 
dis  asses,  pour  faire  connoitre  le  caractere  de  ma  Tra- 
duction. 

"J'apprends  qu'on  en  imprime  actuellement  une  en  Hol- 
lande.  Si  elle  est  litterale,  &  si  elle  est  faite  par  quelque 
Traducteur  ordinaire  de  ce  pais-la,  je  prononce,  sans 
l'avoir  vue,  qu'elle  est  fort  mauvaise,  &  je  suis  bien  sur, 
que  quand  elle  paroitra,  je  ne  serai  ni  dementi,  ni  de- 
trompe."  See  also,  letter  of  the  Abbe  to  Swift,  July  4, 
1727,  and  Swift's  reply;  also,  remarks  of  Gausseron,  Paris 
ed.,  n.  d.,   (A.   Quantain).  The  Abbe  says  that  he   sup- 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  157 

pressed  some  matter  that  was  in  his  preface  to  the  first 
Paris  edition. 

MILDENDO 

1727  (Pigmeos)  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  Seconde  edi- 
tion revue  &  corrigee.  Mildendo,  chez  les  Freres 
Pigmeos.  Avec  privilege  de  1'Empereur  de  Lilli- 
put.     1727. 

2  v.;  pp.  vi  (unnumbered),  vii-xxxix  (numbered),  v 
(unnumbered),  277;  and  viii  (unnumbered),  325;  4  plates; 
cm.  15i. 

Vol.  I  has  a  dedication  to  Madame  la  Marquise  D  .  .  . 
followed  by  "Preface  du  Traducteur,"  and  the  text  ap- 
pears to  be  the  same  as  that  of  Paris  editions  of  the  same 
year  attributed  to  the  Abbe  Desfontaines.  The  preface, 
however,  is  more  moderate  in  its  criticism.     (PI.  XXV.) 

PARIS 

1772  (Musier)  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  Traduit  par  M. 
l'Abbe  des  Fontaines.  Nouvelle  fidition.  Tome 
Premier  [Second].  A  Paris,  Chez  Jean-Baptiste- 
Guillaume  Musier,  fils,  Libraire,  Quai  des  Augus- 
tins,  au  coin  de  la  rue  Gist-le-Coeur.  m.  dcc. 
lxxii.    Avec  privilege  du  Roi. 

2  v.;  pp.  (4)  xxviii,  275;  (4)314(2)  ;  4  plates;  cm.  17. 
(Half-titles;  vign.,  or  printer's  device,  on  t.  p.'s.) 

1779  (No  Pub.)  Travels  into  several  remote  Nations 
of  the   World.     By   Lemuel   Gulliver.     Paris,    m. 

DCC.  LXXIX. 
2  v.;  pp.  ii,  215,  and  vi,  244;  cm.  14. 

1797  (Didot)  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  A  Paris,  de  l'lm- 
primerie  de  Pierre  Didot  L'Aine.     An  V.     1797. 

2  v.  in  4;  pp.  xxxvi,  148;  149-303,  and  148;  149-358. 
10  plates,  (designed  by  le  Febvre,  engraved  by  Masque- 
lier)  ;  cm.  12*.     (Half-title  to  each  of  the  4  vols.) 


158  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Monogram  in  floral  circle  on  title-page.  This  edition 
was  reprinted  at  Paris  in  1860,  and  apparently  follows  the 
Desfontaines  version. 

1813  (Genets)  Voyages  de  Gulliver,  traduits  de  l'An- 
g'lais,  de  Swift,  par  l'Abbe  des  Fontaines.  Edi- 
tion ornee  de  douze  Gravures.  Tome  Premier 
[&c.].  A  Paris,  chez  Genets  jeune,  Libraire,  Rue 
Dauphine,  No.  14,  1813. 

4  v.;  pp.  188;  238;  222;  and  175;  cm.  14£  (uncut). 

Vols-  3  and  4  contain  "Voyages  de  Jean  Gulliver,  fils  du 
Capitaine  Gulliver,"  &c.  Each  of  the  four  vols,  contains 
two  plates  and  a  vignette. 

1823  (Sanson)  Aventures  Surprenantes  de  Gulliver,  ou 
les  Voyages  de  Gulliver  reduits  aux  traits  les  plus 
interessans.  Edition  ornee  de  six  gravures  et 
publiee  par  A.  J.  S.  Paris,  Sanson,  Libraire, 
Boulevard  Bonne-Nouvelle,  No.  3.     1823. 

2  v. ;  pp.  247  and  294.  6  plates,  inc.  vignettes  on  t.  p. ; 
cm.  15  (uncut).  (Half-title — "Aventures  surprenantes 
du  Capitaine  Gulliver.  Tome  ler" ;  "Tome  II.")  Abridged 
and  expurgated.     Chap.  VI,  Pt.  I,  omitted  in  toto. 

1826  (Galignani)  Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  remote 
Nations  of  the  World.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D., 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin.  A  new  edition,  with 
plates.  Vol.  I  [Vol.  II.]  Paris:  Published  by  A. 
and  W.  Galignani,  at  the  French,  English,  Italian, 
German,  and  Spanish  Library,  No.  18,  Rue  Vi- 
vienne,  1826. 

2  vols.;  pp.  iv  (unn.)  xxxvi,  327,  and  iv  (unn.),  348 
(18);    half-titles;    front,  and  9  plates;    cm.  \7J/2  (uncut). 

Appears  to  follow  the  Hawkesworth  text.  The  plates 
are  from  the  Paris  ed.  of  Didot,  1797. 

1835  (Ecoles)  Voyages  de  Gulliver,  par  Swift.  Paris, 
a  la  Librairie  des  ficoles,  rue  Sainte-Marguerite  S. 
G.,  19.     1835. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  159 

2  v.  in  1 ;  pp.  187  and  216;  cm.  12.  (Half-titles— "Voy- 
ages de  Gulliver".)     Desfontaines  version. 

1838  (Furne)  Voyages  de  Gulliver  dans  des  Contrees 
lointaines,  par  Swift,  Edition  illustree  par  Grand- 
ville.  Traduction  nouvelle.  Paris.  Furne  et  Cie, 
Libraires-Editeurs,  rue  Saint-Andre-des-Arts,  55 ; 
H.  Fournier,  Aine,  Editeur,  rue  de  Seine,  16. 
M  DCCC  xxxvm. 

2  v.;  pp.  ii,  279;  ii,  319;  cm.  201.  (Half-title— "Voyages 
de  Gulliver".) 

Following  t.  p.  "Notice  Biographique  et  litteraire  sur 
Jonathan  Swift,  par  Walter  Scott"  (verso — "Note  des 
Editeurs")  ;  leaf  with  wood  cut  precedes  text  in  each 
volume. 

1841  (Gamier)  Voyages  de  Gulliver  dans  des  Con- 
trees  lointaines,  par  Swift.  Traduction  nouvelle, 
precedee  d'une  notice  biographique  et  litteraire 
par  Walter  Scott.  Paris,  Gamier  Freres,  Palais 
Royal ;    H.    Fournier  Aine,   7   rue    Saint   Benoit. 

M   DCCC  XLI. 

Pp.  ii,  280;  front,  and  7  f.  p.  wood  cuts;  cm.  17.  (Half- 
title  "Voyages  de  Gulliver  dans  des  Contrees  lointaines" ; 
verso — adv.)  Eds,  by  same  publisher,  in  1845,  1852, 
and  1869. 

1856  (Gamier)  Voyages  de  Gulliver  dans  des  Con- 
trees lointaines,  par  Swift.  Traduction  nouvelle, 
precedee  d'une  notice  par  Walter  Scott.  Illustra- 
tions par  J.  J.  Grandville.  Paris,  Gamier  Freres, 
Libraires.  Rue  des  Saints-Peres,  6-Palais-Royal. 
215.     mdccclvi. 

Pp.  xxxvii,  444  (3-table)  ;  fore-title,  engraved  front, 
(same  as  in  Stuttgart  edition  of  1839)  ;  cm.  23. 

Note  des  Editeurs,  1  leaf.  Harvard  U.  L.  Copy  not 
examined. 

1860     (Leclere)     Voyages    de    Gulliver.     A  Paris,    an 

m  DCCC  LX. 


160  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

2  v. ;  pp.  xxxv,  152;  153-308,  and  148;  149-360.  10  plates 
by  le  Febvre,  engraved  by  Masquelier;  cm.  16£  (uncut). 

Title-page  in  red  and  black;  title-page  has  monogram. 

General  half-title,  with  imprint.  (Like  Didot  ed.  of  1797, 
but  has  half-title  for  each  Part.)     Only  150  copies. 

1869     (Gamier)  [Same  title  as  that  of  ed.  of  1841.]     Il- 
lustrations de  Grandville.     Paris,  Gamier  Freres, 
Libraires-fiditeurs,  6,  Rue  des  Saints-Peres,  et  Pa- 
lais-Royal, 215.     M  DCCC  LXIX. 
Pp.  vi,  410;  cm.  171    (Half-title.) 

BELGIUM 
BRUXELLES 

1843  (No  Pub.)  Voyage  de  Gulliver  dans  les  Pays 
lointains.  Traduction  nouvelle.  A  Bruxelles,  et 
dans  les  principales  villes  de  l'etranger,  chez  tous 
les  libraires.     1843. 

2  v.;  pp.  186(1)  and  210(1);  cm.  13  (uncut).  (Half- 
titles — "Voyages  de  Gulliver" ;  "Pantheon  classique  et 
litteraire".)  The  editors  intimate  the  "scrupulous  fidelity" 
of  this  text  to  the  original. 

GERMANY 
HAMBURG 

1739  (Wierings)  Des  Capitains  Lemuel  Gulliver  Reisen 
in  unterschiedliche  entfernte  und  unbekandte  Lan- 
der. Erster  Theil.  In  sich  haltend  die  Reisen  nach 
Lilliput  und  Brobdingnac.  Ihrer  Seltsamkeit  und 
Anmuth  wegen  aus  dem  Englischen  in  das  Teutsche 
mit  Fleiss  iibersetzet,  und  mit  Kupfern  gezieret. 
Die  dritte  Auflage.  Hamburg.  Gedruckt  und  ver- 
legt  von  seel.  Thomas  von  Wierings  Erben,  bey  der 
Borse,  im  giildnen  A,  B,  C.  1739.  1st  auch  in  Her- 
tels  Handlung  zu  bekommen. 

Pp.  (Pt.  I,  Lil.  &  Brob.)  xiv,  224;    (Pt.  II,  Lap.  &  H.) 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  161 

viii,  228;  (Pt.  Ill,  Sev.  &c,  Keys,  1746)  (2)308;  (Der 
Neue  Gulliver,  1731)  xliv  (unn.),  318;  2  maps  (Ul.  & 
Lap.),  1  plate,  and  7  other  illus.;   cm.  I6J/2. 

1762  (No  Pub.)  Lemuel  Gulliver's  samtliche  Reisen. 
Aus  dem  Englischen  des  beriihmten  Dr.  Swifts  von 
neuem  ubersetzt.  Mit  Kupfern  [Vign.  of  Gulliver]. 
Zweyte  Auflage.     Hamburg  und  Leipzig,  1762. 

Pp.  xvi,  462;   4  f.  p.  illus.;    cm.  18. 

Reprints  Swift's  letter  of  Apr.  2,  1727,  and  takes  seri- 
ously his  complaint  about  the  misspelling  "Brobdingnag," 
and  prints  "Brobdingrag."  Pages  449-462  are  translations 
of  the  Verses. 

STUTTGART 

1839  (Krabbe)  Gulliver's  Reisen  in  unbekannte  Lan- 
der. Von  Jonathan  Swift.  Aus  dem  Englischen 
iibersetzt,  von  Dr.  Fr.  Kottenkamp.  Nebst  einer 
Notiz  fiber  J.  Swift,  nach  Walter  Scott,  von  Au- 
gust Lewald.  Zwei  Bande,  mit  450  Bildern  und 
Vignetten  von  Grandville.  Stuttgart ;  Verlag  von 
Adolph  Krabbe.     1839. 

2  v. ;  pp.  lxviii,  284,  and  ? ;  cm.  20. 

Half-title :— "Notiz  von  Walter  Scott."  First  leaf: 
engraved  melange.  Text  of  Scott's  life  of  Swift,  fol- 
lowed by  engraved  half-title. 

Harvard  U.  L.    Copy  not  examined. 

LEIPZIG 

1844  (Tauchnitz)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By 
Jonathan  Swift.  With  a  sketch  of  his  life.  Leip- 
zig.    Bernhard  Tauchnitz.     1844. 

Pp.  x,  342;  cm.  16*.  (Fore-title— "Collection  of  British 
Authors.  Vol.  LXIII — Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan 
Swift.    In  one  volume.") 


162  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

[1875]  (Reclam?)  Gulliver's  Reisen.  Von  Jonathan 
Swift.  Aus  dem  Englischen  iibersetzt  von  Dr. 
Kottenkamp.  Leipzig.  Verlag  von  Philipp  Re- 
clam (?)   jun. 

Pp.  352;  cm.  131. 

"Universal  Bibliotek,"  651-654.  Issued  in  paper  covers, 
pp.  2-4  of  which  contain  ads. 

B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

STUTTGART 

[1880]  (Kroner)  Gulliver's  Reisen  in  unbekannte  Lan- 
der, von  Jonathan  Swift.  Fur  die  Jugend  bear- 
beitet  von  Friedrich  Werner.  Mit  vier  Abbildun- 
gen.  Stuttgart :  Druck  und  Verlag  von  Gebriider 
Kroner   [1880]. 

Pp.  127;  cm.  16.  ("Universal-Bibliotek  fur  die 
Jugend".) 

B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

LEIPZIG 

1906  (Abel)  Gulliver's  Reisen  zu  fremden  und  seltsa- 
men  Voelkern.  Nach  Jonathan  Swift,  fur  die 
Jugend  und  die  Familie  verarbeitet  von  Friedrich 
Meister.  Illustriert  von  W.  Zweigle,  Prof.  Hans 
W.  Schmidt  und  E.  Zimmer.  Zweite  Auflage. 
Volksausgabe.  Leipzig :  Verlag  von  Abel  &  Miiller, 
1906. 

Pp.  230(2);  4  f.  p.  woodcuts  and  others  in  the  text; 
cm.  20. 

HOLLAND  —  DUTCH 

'S   GRAVENHAGE,  AND  AMSTERDAM 

1727  (Alberts)  Reisbeschryving  na  Verscheyde  Afgele- 
gene  Natien  in  de  Wereld.     Reis  na  Lilliput,  door 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  163 

Lemuel  Gulliver.     In  's  Gravenhage  by  Alberts  & 
Vander  Kloot.     mdccxxvii. 

4  Parts  in  1  v.;  pp.  viii,  284;  139;  and  172;  cm.  IS; 
port,  and  10  plates,  as  in  the  Hague  French  edition  of  the 
same  year.    Pts.  I  and  II  paged  continuously. 

Title-page  to  each  part,  in  red  and  black,  naming  the 
appropriate  country  or  countries.  The  text  is  from  the 
1st  Motte  ed.,  even  to  the  misnumbering  of  Chap.  VII,  Pt. 
III. 

Following  the  first  title-page,  one  copy  has  a  leaf  of 
dedication  by  the  publishers  to  their  "Broeder,"  Thomas 
van  Dolen.     (PI.  XXIII.) 

1728  (Alberts)  Reys  na  verscheide  ver  afgelegene  Vol- 
keren  der  Wereld  door  KAP :  LEMUEL  GULLI- 
VER. Met  de  Sleutel  op  deszelf  s  vier  Eerste  Rey- 
zen.  Derde  en  laatste  Deel.  In  's  Gravenhage,  by 
Alberts  &  Vander  Kloot.     mdccxxviii. 

Pp.  xx   (unnumbered),  391;  cm.  15. 

This  is  a  translation  of  the  spurious  third  volume  once 
attributed  to  Swift.  It  contains  the  portrait,  and  the  four 
letters  to  Swift,  and  2  plates.    Cf.  supra. 

1791  (Houtgraaff)  L.  Gulliver's  Reize  naar  Lilliput, 
Brobdingnag,  Laputa,  Balnibarbi,  Luggnagg, 
Glubbdubdrib,  Japan  en  het  Land  der  Houyhnhnms. 
Vier  deelen  met  plaaten.  Amsterdam,  by  W. 
Houtgraaff,  Boekverkoper  in  de  Hartestraat,  in  de 
Dubbelde  Kelder.     1791. 

Pp.  vi,  114;  yi,  136,  and  viii,  128;  xii,  158  and  leaf  of 
directions  to  binder;  6  folding  plates.  (Half-title  "Gul- 
liver's Reizen.     Vier  Deelen".) 

In  binding  the  four  parts  together,  the  intermediate 
title-pages  were  omitted.  Prelim,  pp.  iii-iv  apparently  mis- 
sing in  each  Part. 

1792  (Elwe)  Apparently  like  preceding  edition  (1791), 
except  that  the  copy  examined  has  the  four  half- 


164  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

titles,  but  not  the  general  title.     Publisher,  J.  B. 
Elwe,  Amsterdam,  mdccxcii. 

1841  (Ryckevorsel)  Lotgevallen  van  Kapitein  Gulliver. 
Verkorte  Uitgaaf.  's  Gravenhage,  Nederlandsche 
Maatschappij  van  Schoone  Kunsten.  Bestuurder, 
J.  J.  Van  Ryckevorsel.     1841. 

2  Parts;  pp.  79,  72;  cm.  15*.     (Half-title.) 

Wood-cut  front,  to  each  Part,  and  wood-cuts  in  text, 
after  Grandville. 

HAARLEM 

1862  (Kruseman)  Reizen  van  Lemuel  Gulliver  naar 
verschillende  onbekende  Volkeren  der  Aarde. 
Door  Jonathan  Swift.  Uit  het  Engelsch  vertaald, 
met  ophelderende  Aanteekeningen  en  een  levens- 
schets  van  den  Schrijver,  door  J.  W.  N.  Mossel- 
mans.     Haarlem,  A.  C.  Kruseman.     1862. 

2  v.;  pp.  viii,  241,  and  viii.  191;  port,  of  Swift;  cm.  18. 
(Half-title.) 


HOLLAND  —  FRENCH 

THE  HAGUE 

1727  (Gosse)  Voyage  du  Capitaine  Lemuel  Gulliver, 
en  Divers  Pays  Eloignez.  La  Have,  Chez  P. 
Gosse  &  J.  Neaulme.     mdccxxvii. 

2  v.  in  1  ;  pp.  viii  (including  "Catalogue  des  Livres"  and 
"Avertissement  au  Relieur"),  212;  and  viii,  220;  cm.  15*; 
port.,  5  maps,  1  plan,  and  4  wood-cut  illus.     (PI.  XXIV.) 

Four  title-pages  in  red  and  black. 

A  similar  edition  has  the  following  additional  state- 
ment on  the  title-page:  "Nouvelle  Traduction,  plus  ample, 
plus  exacte,  &  plus  fidele,  que  celle  de  Paris,  avec  Fig- 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  165 

ures,  &  Cartes  Geographiques."  This  is  probably  the  later 
issue  of  the  two,  and  this  notice,  a  reply  to  the  denounce- 
ment by  the  Abbe  Desfontaines. 

1762  (Swart)  Voyages  du  Capitaine  Gulliver  en  clivers 
pays  eloignes.  Tome  Premier  [  Seconde :  Troi- 
sieme].  A  la  Haye,  Chez  Jean  Swart,  Libraire, 
dans  le  Toornstraat.     m.  dcc.  lxii. 

3  v.  in  1 ;  pp.  (4)  xvi  (3  unnumbered),  154;  vi  (un- 
numbered), 183;  and  xxii  (unnumbered),  238;  6  plates, 
but  no  maps ;  cm.  16£.     (Title  page  in  red  and  black.) 

Includes  parts  of  the  spurious  v.  3  of  the  English  edi- 
tion—  the  "Second  Voyage  a  Brobdingnag,"  "Voyages 
des  Sevarambes ;"  and  the  four  Letters  to  the  Dean,  each 
with  a  separate  t.  p.  Other  editions  by  the  same  publish- 
er were  issued  in  1765  and  1778,  with  the  following  dif- 
ferences : 

1765  Vol.  1,  (4)  xiv  (unnumb.),  174(4);  v.  2,  (2)204 
(4)  ;  v.  3,  xviii,  268(4)  ;  cm.  18  (uncut). 

1778  Vol.  1,  (4)  xiv  (numb.),  170(8)  ;  v.  2,  (2)189(5) ; 
v.  3,  xviii  (unnumbered),  268(4)  ;  cm.  16^.  (Title 
page  in  black.)  The  plates  in  this  ed.  are  more 
crude  than  in  the  others. 


AMSTERDAM 

1787  (No  Pub.)  Voyages  du  capitaine  Lemuel  Gulliver, 
par  le  Docteur  Swift.  Traduits  par  l'abbe  Des- 
fontaine. 

Pp.  xxxii,  400;  fore-title;  2  illus.  after  Marillier  by 
Croutelle,  and  De  Ghendt ;    cm.  19lA. 

In  "Voyages  imaginaires,  songes,  visions,  et  romans 
cabalistiques"  (edites  par  C.  G.  I.  Gamier,  v.  14).  Am- 
sterdam and  Paris,  m.dcc.lxxxvii. 


166  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

ITALY 
VENICE 

1749  (Tevernin)  Viaggi  del  Capitano  Lemuel  Gulliver 
in  diversi  Paesi  lontani.  Traduzione  dal  Fran- 
zese,  di  F.  Zannino  Marsecco.  Tomo  Primo,  Parte 
Prima.  [T.  p.  to  Vol.  II  abbreviated.]  Contenente 
il  Viaggio  di  Lilliput.  In  Venezia,  mdccxlix.  Ap- 
presso  Giovanni  Tevernin,  all'  Insegna  della  Provi- 
denza.     Con  Licenza  de'  Superiori  e  Privilegio. 

2  v.  in   1 ;  pp.  v-xii,  408;   cm.  15.     (Ftspc.  and  vign.) 


MADRID 


SPAIN 


1824  (Sancha)  Viajes  del  Capitan  Lemuel  Gulliver  a 
diversos  Paises  remotos,  traducidos  de  la  Edicion 
Francesa  por  Don  Ramon  Maximo  Spartal,  cabal- 
lero  maestrante  de  la  real  de  Granada,  y  vecino  de 
la  ciudad  de  Plasencia.  Segunda  edicion  con  lam- 
inas.  Con  Licencia  en  Madrid,  ano  de  1824.  Im- 
prenta  de  I.  Sancha. 

2  v.;  pp.  xxviii,  255,  and  viii,  264;  front,  in  each  vol- 
ume; no  maps;  cm.  15. 

SWEDEN 

WESTERAS 

1772  (Horrn)  Capitain  Lemuel  Gullivers  Resor  til  at- 
skillige  langt  bort  belagne  Land ;  Beprydde  med 
Kopparstycken.  Forra  Delen.  [Senare  Delen.] 
Talkad  if  ran  Fransyskan.  Andra  Uplagan.  Was- 
teras,  Tryckt  hos  Joh.  Laur.  Horrn,  pa  dess  bekost- 
nad,  ar  1772. 

2  v.  in  1;  pp.  xvi  (unnumbered),  150(2);  x,  160;  4 
plates;  cm.  16*.  Pp.  161  &c  contain  an  exam,  of  Mande- 
ville's  "Fables  of  the  Bees." 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  167 

LINKOPING 

1840  (Palmaer)  Gulliver's  Resor,  af  Jonathan  Swift. 
Ofwersattning.  Forsta  Delen  [&c]  Resan  till  Lille- 
pytt.  Linkoping,  1840  (Part  IV,  1841).  Palmaer 
&  Ridderstad. 

Pp.  84,  96,  84,  and  107;  cm.  14£. 

STOCKHOLM 

1889  (Aktiebolaget)  Gulliver's  Resor  till  Lilliput  och 
Brobdingnag  af  Jonathan  Swift.  Ofversattning 
af  C.  F.  Bagge.  Stockholm,  Aktiebolaget  Hiertas 
Bokforlag,  1889.  Stockholm,  Otto  Ahlstroms 
Boktryckeri,  1889. 

Pp.  190(2)  ;  cm.  \7h.     (Half-title.) 

NORTH  AMERICA 

PHILADELPHIA 

1808  (Buzby)  The  Surprizing  Adventures  of  Captain 
Gulliver  in  a  Voyage  to  the  Kingdom  of  Lilliput. 
Philadelphia,  published  by  B.  C.  Buzby,  No.  2 
Nh.  3  St.,  1808. 

Pp.  52;  cm.  13. 

7  £.  p.  crude  woodcuts;  vign.  on  title-page  (Love,  sc.) 

1808  (Carey)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  Philadelphia :  Printed  for  Mathew  Carev, 
No.  122,  Market  Street.     1808. 

Pp.  vi,  7-112,  and  119;  cm.  14. 

Only  v.  I  seen. 

Front,  to  each  of  the  two  parts ;  date  of  part  2,  1809. 

1866  (Lippincott)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By 
Dean  Swift.     With  a  life  of  the  Author  by  Rev. 


168  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

John  Mitford,  and  copious  notes  by  W.  C.  Taylor, 
LL.D.    Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.    1866. 

Pp.  xii,  13-431;  cm.  18*. 

Half-titles  to  "The  Works  of  Dean  Swift,"  and  to  each 
of  the  four  parts.  Ode  to  Quinbus  Flestrin.  [Possibly 
first  published  in  1865.] 

1873     (Lippincott)  Reissue  of  the  edition  of  1866. 

1918  (Lippincott)  Gulliver's  Travels.  A  Voyage  to 
Lilliput ;  a  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  By  Jonathan 
Swift.  With  illustrations  in  color  by  Maria  L. 
Kirk.  Splendide  Mendax — Horace.  Philadelphia 
and  London :   J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  1918. 

Pp.  221 ;  8  f .  p.  colored  plates ;  cm.  20. 

Title-page  in  red  and  black  in  a  border;  half-title  to 
each  part;  first  leaf  has  half-title  on  recto  and  book-ad.  on 
verso. 

NEW  YORK 

1812  (Durell)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships. 
Four.  I.  A.  Voyage  to  Lilliput  &c.  "Splendide 
Mendax."     Hor. 

Pp.  xii  (incl.  front).  338;  cm.  20  (uncut).  Vol.  IX  of 
"The  Works  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.,  &c,  ar- 
ranged by  Thomas  Sheridan,  A.M.,  with  notes,  historical 
and  critical.  A  new  edition  in  twenty-four  volumes,  cor- 
rected and  revised  by  John  Nichols,  F.A.S.,  Edinburgh 
and  Perth.  New  York:  Published  by  William  Durell 
and  Co.  1812."  (Fore-title— ;The  British  Classics:  Vol- 
ume the  fifty-third,  containing  the  ninth  volume  of 
Swift's  works.     1812".) 

1847  (Leavitt)  Gulliver's  Travels  and  Adventures  in 
Lilliput  and  Brobdingnag.  by  Dean  Swift.  With 
copious  notes,  by  W.  C.  Taylor,  LL.D.,  and  a  life 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  169 

of  the  author,  by  the  Rev.  John  Mitford.  Illus- 
trated by  numerous  engravings.  New  York:  Lea- 
vill,  Trow  &  Co.,  191  Broadway,  1847. 

Pp.  x.  11-310(4)  ;  front;  cm.  16.  (Half-title— "The  life 
of  Swift".) 

Extra  title  with  vign. ;  woodcuts  in  text.  Contains  some 
of  the  Verses. 

1854  (Leavitt)  An  edition  whose  title  is  similar  to  the 
following  was  published  in  1854. 

B.  P.  L. 

1855  (Leavitt)  The  Works  of  Dean  Swift;  embracing 
Gulliver's  Travels,  Tale  of  a  Tub,  Battle  of  the 
Books,  etc.,  with  a  life  of  the  author,  by  Rev.  John 
Mitford ;  and  copious  notes,  by  W.  C.  Taylor, 
LL.D.  New  York:  Leavitt  &  Allen,  27  Dey  Street. 
1855. 

Pp.  x,  11-310  (Gulliver's  Travels);  cm.  19. 

Half-title  to  "The  Life  of  Swift"  and  to  "Gulliver's 
Travels.  Voyage  to  Lilliput"  [and  "Gulliver's  Travels. 
Voyage  to  Brobdingnag"].  (Parts  III  and  IV  not  in- 
cluded.) 

Contains  Ode  to  Quinbus  Flestrin — one  of  the  Verses ; 
also  "Tale  of  a  Tub"  and  "Battle  of  the  Books,"  which 
appear  to  constitute  the  remainder  of  the  "Works." 

NEW  YORK-CINCINNATI 

1856  (Derby)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four. 
By  Dean  Swift,  with  a  life  of  the  author,  by  Rev. 
John  Mitford :  and  copious  notes,  by  W.  C.  Taylor, 
LL.D.  New  York:  Derby  &  Jackson.  119  Nassau 
St.,  Cincinnati:  H.  W.  Derby  &  Co.     1856. 

Pp.  xii,  431 ;  port,  of  Swift ;  cm.  18i  (Fore-title— "The 
Works  of  Swift,"  and  half-title  to  each  of  the  parts.) 

At  the  head  of  title-page,  "Only  complete  American 
edition." 


170  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

NEW  YORK 

1857  (Derby)  A  similar  edition  to  the  preceding,  bound 
in  2  v.,  with  portrait. 

B.  P.  L.    Copy  not  examined. 

1860     (Derby)   A  similar  edition  to  the  preceding,  ex- 
cept that  the  imprint  reads  "498  Broadway." 
No  portrait  in  the  copy  consulted. 

1884  (Worthington)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lem- 
uel ..  .  Ships.  Splendide  Mendax.  Hor.  With 
copious  notes,  and  a  life  of  the  author  by  W.  C. 
Taylor,  LL.D.,  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  New 
York :  R.  Worthington,  770  Broadway,  1884. 

Pp.  334(2);  front.;  cm.  18*. 

Has  an  appendix  to  Lilliput,  and  to  Laputa,  the  Ode  to 
Quinbus  Flestrin,  and  other  Verses. 

The  cover  of  some  copies  reads  "Gulliver's  Travels  and 
Baron  Munchausen." 

1892  (Maynard)  Gulliver's  Travels.  The  Voyage  to 
Lilliput.  By  Dean  Swift.  Edited  and  adapted  for 
use  in  schools  by  Albert  E.  Blaisdell.  New  York: 
Maynard,  Merrill  &  Co.,  publishers.     1892. 

Pp.  54(5);  cm.  16*.     (No.  60  of  "English  Classic  Se- 
ries.") 

Small  portrait  on  title-page. 

B.  P.  L,.     Copy  not  examined. 

1896  (Longmans)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lem- 
uel .  .  .  Ships.     New  York:  Longmans,  Green  and 

Co.       MDCCCXCVI. 

Pp.  308;  5  maps,  1  plan;  cm.  19§  (uncut).     (Half-title.) 

Ornamental  title-page  in  red  and  black.    A  reversion  to 
the  Motte  text;  printed  on  frail  paper. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  171 

1903  (Collier)  Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan  Swift, 
D.D.,  with  an  introduction  by  Edward  Brooks. 
Illustrated  by  Beatrice  Stevens.  New  York.  P. 
F.  Collier  &  Son.     1903. 

Pp.  (2)x  (unnumbered),  384;  2  colored  plates;  cm.  20. 
(Library  for  Young  People.  Vol.  VI.)  Fore-title,  and 
half-title.     Contains  some  of  the  Verses. 

NEW  YORK  AND  LONDON 

1904  (Macmillan)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By 
Jonathan  Swift.  Edited,  with  notes  and  an  intro- 
duction by  Clifton  Johnson.  New  York:  The  Mac- 
millan Company.  London :  Macmillan  &  Co.,  Ltd. 
1904.     All  rights  reserved. 

Pp.  xxiv,  242(4)  ;  front.;  cm.  14.  (Gen.  half-title,  and 
half-title  to  each  Part.) 

1909  (Bowman)  Gulliver's  Travels  to  Lilliput,  Brob- 
dingnag,"  Laputa  and  the  Country  of  the  Houy- 
hnhnms.  Illustrated  by  Lancelot  Speed.  New 
York,  Charles  L.  Bowman  &  Co.  Mercantile 
Building.     1909. 

Pp.  xxiv  (inclu.  fly-leaf),  25-334;  8  f.  p.  plates;  cm.  19*. 
(Half-title  to  each  part.) 

1910  (Methuen)  Dean  Swift.  By  Sophie  Shilieto 
Smith.  With  sixteen  illustrations.  New  York : 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  London :  Methuen  &  Co. 
1910. 

Pp.  xii,  340;  front;  cm.  22.     (Half-title.) 

GARDEN  CITY-NEW  YORK 

1912  (Doubleday)  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan 
Swift.     Edited   by   Anna    Tweed.     Illustrated   by 


172  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Dan   Sayre   Groesbeck.     Garden   City-New   York, 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Company,  1912. 

Pp.  xviii,  304(6)  ;  8  plates;  cm.  19.  (Fore-title— "Gol- 
den Books  for  Children,  edited  by  Clifton  Johnson — Gul- 
liver's Travels,"  and  half-title  to  each  part.) 

NEW  YORK  AND  LONDON 

1913  (Harper)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By 
Jonathan  Swift  (Lemuel  Gulliver)  first  a  surgeon 
and  then  a  captain  of  several  ships.  With  an  in- 
troduction by  W.  D.  Howells  and  more  than  one 
hundred  illustrations  by  Louis  Rhead.  Harper  & 
Brothers,     Publishers,     New     York     &     London. 

MCMXIII. 

Pp.  xviii,  351 ;  cm.  22\.     (Half-title.) 

Portrait  of  Swift  surrounded  by  miniature  illustrations; 
title-page  within  a  border;  vignetted  half-title  to  each 
part ;  page  of  maps.    Text  corrupt. 

1917  (Macmillan)  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan 
Swift.  Edited  by  Padraic  Colum.  Presented  by 
Willy  Pogany.  The  Macmillan  Company.  New 
York,  1917. 

Pp.  xxviii,  296(3)  ;  12  col'd,  and  other  plates;  cm.  19. 

Title-page,  and  half-title  to  each  part,  with  vignette. 
Map  on  verso  of  half-title  to  each  Part.  [Attractively 
illustrated,  but  text  emasculated.] 

BOSTON 

1900  (Heath)  The  B.  P.  L.  has  an  edition  like  the  fol- 
lowing, dated  1900,  in  2  v. 

1901  (Heath)  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Jona- 
than Swift,  D.D.  Edited  with  introduction  and 
notes  by   Thomas   M.   Balliet,    Superintendent   of 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  173 

Schools,  Springfield,  Mass.  With  thirty-eight  il- 
lustrations and  a  map.  Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lil- 
liput.  Part  II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  Bos- 
ton, U.  S.  A. :  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  Publishers,  1901. 

Pp.  xii,  inclu.  front,  (pages  misnumbered),  102;  and 
112;  cm.  19. 

The  illustrations  do  not  correspond  to  the  statement  on 
the  title-page.  There  are  38  in  Part  I  alone.  There  is 
also  a  map  in  each  part.  The  cover  bears  the  statement 
"The  Home  Library,"  which  appears  nowhere  in  the 
volume.     [Text  expurgated.] 

1902  (Ginn)  Gulliver's  Travels.  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilli- 
put.  II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  By  Jonathan 
Swift.  Dean  of  St.  Patrick  [sic].  Edited  for 
schools,  with  notes  and  a  sketch  of  the  author's  life. 
Boston,  U.  S.  A. :  Published  by  Ginn  &  Company. 
1902. 

Pp.  x,  162(4)  ;  cm.  17*. 

CHICAGO 

1884  (Bedford)  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel 
.  .  .  Ships.  Splendide  Mendax. — Hor.  With  copi- 
ous notes,  and  a  life  of  the  author,  by  W.  C.  Taylor, 
LL.D.,  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  Chicago :  Bel- 
ford,  Clarke  &  Co.     1884. 

Pp.  333;  front;  cm.  18. 

Bound  in  with  Munchausen. 

This  edition  appears  to  contain  the  same  matter  as  the 
New  York-Worthington  edition  of  the  same  year,  but  has 
a  different  frontispiece  and  is  of  a  different  setting.  A 
misnumbering  of  the  preliminary  pages  has  resulted  in 
the  absence  of  pp.  3-6  inclusive. 

CINCINNATI 

1906     (Phonographic)  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.     By  Jona- 


174  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

than  Swift.     In  the  amanuensis  style  of  phonogra- 
phy, by  Benn  (sic)  Pitman  and  Jerome  B.  Howard. 
Cincinnati :  The  Phonographic  Institute  Company, 
1906. 
Pp.  60;   cm.  17.    B.  P.  L. 

HALIFAX 

1859  (Milner)  Gulliver's  Travels  into  several  remote 
Nations  of  the  World.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D., 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick's.  With  the  life  of  the  author. 
Halifax  :  Milner  and  Sowerby.     1859. 

Pp.  (3)xvi,  272(3);    front;   vign. ;    cm.  uy2. 

Engraved  title-page,  extra.  Extra  11.  of  ads.  with  bor- 
der; first  and  last  leaf  pasted  to  cover.  ("The  Cottage 
Library"  embossed  on  back.) 

UNDATED  EDITIONS 
GREAT  BRITAIN  AND  IRELAND 
LONDON,  LONDON-NEW  YORK,  ETC. 

Cassell,  Petter,  and  Galpin.  Gulliver's  Travels 
.  .  .  World.  By  Dean  Swift.  A  new  Edition. 
With  explanatory  Notes  and  a  Life  of  the  Author, 
by  John  Francis  Waller,  LL.D.,  Vice-president  of 
the  Royal  Irish  Academy.  Illustrated  by  T.  Mor- 
ten [Emblem]. 

Pp.  iv   (unn.),  xliv,  352;    front.;  cm.  26. 

A  later  ed.,  "Illustrated  by  the  late  T.  Morten,"  has  the 
front,  colored,  and  4  pp.  of  ads.  Ornamental  border.  Has 
some  of  the  Verses. 

C.  Cooke.  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships       Two  volumes  in  one.       By  Dean  Swift. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  175 

Cooke's  Edition.  [Emblem]  Embellished  with 
superb  engravings. 

Pp.  iv,  5-287(1)  ;    front,  and  3  f.  p.  illus.;    cm.  14. 

There  were  two  editions,  each  with  four  plates  after  R. 
Corbould,  by  Hawkins,  and  Warren.  In  the  earlier  ed. 
these  plates  are  dated  1795-1797;  in  the  later,  1797,  1798, 
1800  and  1801,  and  partly  re-engraved.  In  the  later  ed.  the 
last  p.  has  a  list  of  books. 

J.  M.  Dent  &  Sons,  Ltd.  (N.  Y. :  E.  P.  Dutton 
&  Co.).     Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan  Swift. 

Pp.  xx,  280;  cm.  17.  (Fore-title  "Everyman's  Library.") 

Title  and  opposite  page  with  ornamental  border.  Wood- 
cuts after  Rackham.    Maps. 

First  published  March,  1906;  again  in  1909,  1910  and 
1912. 

J.  F.  Dove.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.     With  the  Life  of  the  Author. 

Pp.  xxvi,  334;  cm.  \2\. 

Front,  and  vignette  engraved  for  Dove's  English  Clas- 
sics, by  G.  Corbould,  designed  by  H.  Corbould.     1832? 

B.  P.  L.  has  editions  of  1824  and  185- ? 

J.  Harris  (Successor  to  E.  Newbery)  &c.  The 
Adventures  of  Captain  Gulliver  in  a  Voyage  to  the 
Islands  of  Lilliput  and  Brobdingnag.  Abridged 
from  the  Works  of  the  Celebrated  Dean  Swift. 
Adorned  with  cuts.     Price  six  pence. 

Pp.  123(5)  ;  cm.  11 
Crude  wood  cuts  in  text. 

Hayward  and  Moore.  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lem- 
uel .  .  .  Ships.  Four.  Splendide  Mendax. — Hor. 
Illustrated  with  upwards  of  four  hundred  wood- 
engravings  from  designs  by  Grandville.  With  copi- 
ous notes,  a  Life  of  the  Author,  and  an  Essay  on 


176  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

satirical  fiction,  by  W.  C.  Taylor,  LL.D.  of  Trinity 
College,  Dublin  [1840]. 

Pp.  16  (inclu.  front.)  lx,  508;  front.;  cm.  24  (uncut). 

Appendices  contain   some  of   the   Verses.     Appears  to 
follow  the  Hawkesworth  text. 

T.  C.  &  E.  C.  Jack.  (N.  Y. :  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.) 
Gulliver's  Travels  in  Lilliput  and  Brobdingnag,  told 
to  the  children  by  John  Lang,  with  pictures  by  F. 
M.  B.  Blaikie. 

"Told  to  the  Children  Series.") 
Pp.   x,    116;    8   colored    plates;    cm.    14.      (Half-title— 

T.  Nelson  and  Sons.     Gulliver's  Travels,  by  Dean 

Swift. 

Pp.  xxxii    (inclu.   front.),   320;   cm.   15i.     (Title   page 
with  border.) 

Ernest  Nister.  (N.  Y. :  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.). 
Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan  Swift.  Adapted 
for  the  young  by  W.  B.  Scott.  Illustrated  by  A. 
E.  Jackson. 

Pp.  332;  six  colored  and  other  full-page  illus. ;  cm.  20h- 
(Ornamental  half-title.) 

George  Routledge  &  Sons,  Limited.  (N.Y. :  E. 
P.  Dutton  &  Co.)  Gulliver's  Travels  by  Jonathan 
Swift.  Adapted  for  the  young.  A  new  edition 
with  many  illustrations  (4  colored). 

Pp.  xvi,  415;  cm.  19.     (Gen.  half-title,  and  half-title  to 
each  Part.) 

George  Routledge  and  Sons,  Limited.  Gulli- 
ver's Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift  .  .  .  Dean.  Lon- 
don and  New  York. 

Pp.  (l)iv,  361(1);  cm.  18*. 

B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  177 

Walter  Scott.  Prose  writings  of  Swift.  Chosen 
and  arranged  by  Walter  Lewin.     London. 

Pp.  xxviii,  352;  cm.  17J. 

No  date  on  title-page.  Date  of  introduction  is  1886. 
Belongs  to  the  Camelot  series. 

B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

Sidgwick  &  Jackson,  Ltd.  Gulliver's  Voyages 
to  Lilliput  and  Brobdingnag.  Written  by  Jona- 
than Swift,  illustrated  by  P.  A.  Staynes. 

Pp.  xiv,  237(1)  ;  cm.  201  (uncut). 

Fore-title;  ornamented  half-title  to  each  part,  with  map 
on  verso.  Illus.  in  black  and  color.  Title-page  and  oppo- 
site page  with  ornamental  border.     [1912.] 

This  text  was  also  issued  with  the  imprint  of  Henry 
Holt  and  Co,  N.  Y. 

Ward,  Lock  &  Co.,  Limited.  Gulliver's  Travels, 
by  Tonathan  Swift,  D.D.  With  colored  plates  [bv 
H.  C.  Sandy]. 

Pp.  320;  8  plates;  cm.  21. 

Fore-title,  and  half-title  to  each  part. 

Ward,  Lock  &  Co.,  Limited.  (London,  Mel- 
bourne &  Toronto).  Gulliver  in  Liliput  (sic)  by 
Jonathan  Swift,  D.  D.  Retold  by  Edith  Robarts ; 
illustrated  in  color. 

Pp.  93;  8  plates;  cm.  14*.     (Fore-title.) 
Title-page  within  ornamental  border. 

Ward,  Lock  &  Co.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World. 
Swift  .  .  .  Dean.  With  a  memoir  of  the  author. 
Illustrated  with  upwards  of  300  wood-engravings, 
from  designs  by  J.  G.  Thomson,  engraved  by  W. 
L.  Thomas. 
Pp.  xxxvi,  364(16)  ;  cm.  20.     (Fore-title.) 


178  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

Half-title  to  each  part.  Verses  and  ballads.  Similar 
to  the  edition  published  by  Frederick  Warne  &  Co.,  (Bee- 
ton's  Boys'  Own  Library.) 

Frederick  Warne  and  Co.  (N.  Y. :  Scribner, 
Welford,  and  Armstrong).  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  . 
World.     A  new  edition,  revised  for  general  use. 

Pp.  iv,  188;  cm.  IS. 

Four  f.  p.  woodcuts  after  Phiz. 

Frederick  Warne  and  Co.  Gulliver's  Travels 
.  .  .  World.  Swift  .  .  .  Dean.  With  a  Memoir  of 
the  Author.  Illustrated  with  upwards  of  300  wood 
engravings,  from  designs  by  J.  G.  Thomson,  en- 
graved by  W.  L.  Thomas. 
Pp.  xxxvi,  364;  cm.  21.     (Fore-title.) 

Half-title  to  each  part,  colored  front,  and  ornamental 
title-page.     (Beeton's  Boy's  Own  Library.) 

Has  Verses  and  ballads. 

Willoughby  and  Co.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  . 
World.  Swift  .  .  .  Dean.  With  a  Life  of  the  Au- 
thor. Embellished  with  numerous  engravings,  by 
first-rate  artists. 

Pp.  11-306;  2  woodcut  front's.;  cm.  21. 

EDINBURGH 

G.  Ross.  Adventures  of  Captain  Gulliver,  in  a 
Voyage  to  Lilliput.     Edinburgh.     [1814]. 

Pp.  47;  cm.  9J. 

Wood  cut  front.,  vignette  on  title-page,  and  cuts  in  text. 

Like  Glasgow  edition  of  1815. 


PARIS 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  179 

FRANCE 

Delarue.  Voyages  de  Gulliver,  par  Swift.  Tra- 
duction de  l'Abbe  Desfontaines,  revue  par  Remond. 
Illustre  de  130  dessins  par  H.  fimy  et  Telory. 

Pp.  (ii)356;  front.;  cm.  18£  (uncut).     (Half-title.) 

E.  Ducrocq,  Successeur  de  P.-C.  Lehuby.  Same 
title  as  that  of  the  Lehuby  edition  of  [1843]. 

Pp.  447;  cm.  21J.     (Half-title.) 

The  plates  are  the  same  as  in  the  Lehuby  ed.,  but  have 
a  border. 

P.-C.  Lehuby.  Voyages  de  Gulliver  dans  les 
Contrees  lointaines,  par  Swift.  Nouvelle  edition, 
corrigee  et  revetue  de  l'approbation  de  M.  L'Abbe 
Lejeune,  Chanoine  de  la  Metropole  de  Rouen,  Pro- 
fesseur  a  la  Faculte  de  Theologie.  Illustree  de  20 
grands  dessins  par  Bouchot,  graves  par  MM.  Brug- 
not,  Chevin,  Trichon,  Poujet  et  Budzilowicz.  Paris, 
Libraire  de  l'Enfance  et  de  la  Jeunesse.  P.-C.  Le- 
huby.    [1843] 

Pp.  428;  cm.  19.     (Half-title.) 

Henry  Laurens.  Swift.  Voyages  de  Gulliver. 
Illustrations  de  A.  Robida.  fidition  pour  la  Jeun- 
esse, precede  d'une  introduction  par  M.  L.  Tarsot, 
Sous-Chef  de  Bureau  au  Ministere  de  lTnstruction 
publique.  [Vignette.]  Paris.  Librairie  Renouard. 
Henri  Laurens,  fiditeur,  6,  rue  de  Tournon,  6,  Tous 
droits  reserves. 

Pp.  (2)iv,  128;  cm.  27.     (Half-title.) 


180  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

PARIS 

Charles  Letaille.  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  Nou- 
velle  edition  specialement  destinee  a  la  jeunesse  et 
ornee  de  nombreuses  figures  decoupes. 

Pp.  128;  cm.  13$.     (Half-title.) 

Illustrations  "cut  out"  and  mounted  on  inserted  leaves. 
First  two  Parts  only. 

Librairie  F.  Polo.  Voyages  de  Gulliver  par  Swift, 
traduits  par  l'Abbe  Desfontaines,  precedes  d'une 
etude  sur  la  vie  et  les  ecrits  de  Swift  par  Rene  De- 
lorme. 

Pp.  (4)xxiv,  328;  hf.  t. ;  woodcuts  after  Morten  by 
Cooper,  and  Linton ;    cm.  27. 

Cf.  Cassell  eds.,  London,  etc.  [c.  1872.] 

G.  Marpon  et  E.  Flammarion.  Swift.  Voyages 
de  Gulliver. 

Pp.  (2)ii,  315;  no  plates;  cm.  15J.     (Half-title.) 

Nelson  (Paris,  Londres,  Edimbourg  &  New  York). 
Voyages  de  Gulliver  par  Jonathan  Swift. 

Pp.  64;  8  colored  plates;  cm.  25. 

La  Place,  Sanchez  et  Cie.  Voyages  de  Gulliver, 
par  Swift.  Traduction  de  l'abbe  Desfontaine,  re- 
vue, corrigee,  et  precede  d'une  Introduction  par 
Jules  Janin.  Illustrations  de  Gavarni.  Quatrieme 
Edition. 

Pp.  iv,  380;  16  f.  p.  plates,  and  vign.  on  title-page;  cm. 
25*.     (Fore-title,  and  half-title  to  each  Part.) 

16  f.  p.  plates,  and  vign.  on  title-page. 

The  cover  has  the  imprint  "Morizot,  Libraire-Edi- 
teur"  &c.)  The  text  does  not  agree  with  that  of  the 
Paris  ed.  of  1727. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  181 

A.  Quantin.  Voyages  de  Gulliver.  Traduction 
nouvelle  et  complete,  par  B.-H.  Gausseron.     Paris. 

Pp.  (4)xii,  429(3)  ;  cm.  251  (281,  uncut).  (Half-title: 
"Voyages  chez  plusieurs  Nations  reculees  du  Monde,  par 
Lemuel  Gulliver,  d'abord  Chirurgien,  puis  Capitaine  sur 
differents  Vaisseaux.     Complet  en  quatre  Parties.") 

Colored  vign.  on  title-page  and  colored  illust.  in  text,  by 
V.  A.  Poirson.  Cf.  London,  1886,  Nimmo.  The  editor 
says  of  the  Paris  ed.  of  1727:  "les  suppressions,  les  addi- 
tions et  les  contresens  les  plus  audacieux  et  les  plus  in- 
croyables  s'etalent  avec  complaisance"  (p.  x). 

GERMANY 
BERLIN 

Globus  Verlag.  Gullivers  Reisen,  nach  dem  Eng- 
lischen  des  Jonathan  Swift  fur  die  Jugend  bear- 
beitet.  Mit  Ulustrationen  in  Farbendruck  nach 
Originalen  von  Max  Wulff. 

Pp.  238;  5  plates;  cm.  21$. 

COLOGNE 

Verlag  Hermann  &  Friedrich  Schaffstein.  Gul- 
livers Reisen  nach  Lilliput  und  Brobdingnag  von 
Jonathan  Swift.  Nach  Fr.  Kottenkamps  Ueber- 
setzung  aus  dem  Englischen  durchgesehen  und 
ausgewahlt  von  H.  Schaffstein.  Fur  Knaben  und 
Madchen  vom  12ten  Jahre  an. 

Pp.  122(2)  ;  cm.  20.  (Fore-title,  and  half-title  to  each 
Part.) 

Fore-title,  and  half-title  to  each  part. 

Not  expurgated. 

LEIPZIG 

Abel   &   Miiller.      Gulliver's   Reizen  zu    fremden 


182  GULLIVER'S   TRAVELS 

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andere  vreemde  Landen.  Voor  de  Jeugd  bewerkt 
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Aquarellen  van  Wm.  Steelink.     Derde  Druk. 

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Brobdingnag,  door  Jonathan  Swift.  Vertaald  door 
Albert  Verwey.     Met  23  Afbeeldingen. 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY  183 


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kanta  Lander  af  Jonathan  Swift.  Ofversattning 
f ran  Engelska  originalet.  Tva  Delar :  Resorna  till 
Lilliput  och  Brobdingnag.  Med  ofver  50  illustra- 
tioner  och  en  planch  i  fargtryck.     [1882]. 

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J.  W.  Lofvings  Forlag.  Kapten  Lemuel  Gul- 
livers Resa  till  Lilleputernes  Land.  En  under- 
hallande  Berattelse  for  Barn.  Med  6  kolorerade 
planscher. 

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PHILADELPHIA 

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remote  regions  of  the  world.     By  Jonathan  Swift, 
D.D.     With  55  illustrations.     [1896.] 
Pp.  ii,  5-216(4)  ;  col'd  front.;  cm.  15i 

Henry  Altemus  Company.  [Same  title  and  text 
as  preceding.]  With  fifty-five  illustrations.  Copy- 
right 1899  by  Henry  Altemus. 

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Title-page  in  red  or  blue,  with  black  or  green  border. 
Front,  in  blue  or  black.  ("Altemus'  Young  People's  Li- 
brary.") 

David  McKay.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World. 
By  Dean  Swift.  With  ten  full  page  colored  plates 
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By  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.  With  four  full-page  col- 
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The  American  News  Company.  Travels  .  .  . 
World.     By  Jonathan    Swift. 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY  185 

A.  L.  Burt.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift 
.  .  .  Dean.  Illustrated  by  Gordon  Browne  and  C. 
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Half-title  to  each  of  the  two  parts. 

A.  L.  Burt.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  In 
words  of  one  syllable.  By  J.  C.  G.  From  the 
original  by  Dean  Swift.     Illustrated. 

Pp.  94(2)  ;  cm.  20.    Copyright  1895. 

A.  L.  Burt  Company.  Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  . 
World.  By  Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.  With  eight 
illus.  in  colors  and  thirty-seven  drawings  in  black 
and  white,  by  Gordon  Browne  and  C.  E.  Brock. 

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ton). Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  By  Dean 
Swift.  A  new  edition,  with  explanatory  notes  and 
a  life  of  the  author,  by  John  Francis  Waller,  LL.D. 
With  fifty  wood-engravings,  and  ten  original  color- 
ed plates. 

Pp.  446;  cm.  192.     ("Caldwell's  Juvenile  Classics,  with 
colored  illustrations.") 

Gen.  half-title ;  half-title  to  Life  of  Dean  Swift,  and  to 
each  Part.    Title  in  red  and  black.    Verses. 

H.  M.  Caldwell  Company  (New  York  and  Bos- 
ton). Gulliver's  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Swift  .  .  . 
Dean.  With  eighteen  illustrations  by  Gordon 
Brown  and  others,  and  ten  original  colored  plates. 

Pp.  ii.  7-333  (9  blank  +  16)  ;  cm.  19.     ("Caldwell's  Ju- 
venile Classics,  with  colored  illustrations.") 

Verses. 


186  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

H.  M.  Caldwell  Company  (New  York  and  Bos- 
ton) .  Gulliver's  Travels  in  Lilliput  and  Brobding- 
nag.     From  the  Story  by  Dean  Swift. 

Pp.  ii,  128;  cm.  18. 

Seven  colored  plates,  and  process  plates  in  text.    Printed 
in  Scotland. 

Chatterton-Peck  Co.  Gulliver's  Travels  into 
some  remote  Regions  of  the  World.  By  Jonathan 
Swift,  D.D.    With  seventy  illustrations. 

Pp.  198(4)  ;  cm.  19.     (Half-title.) 
Six  illus.  in  color. 

Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  Travels  .  .  .  World. 
Gulliver  .  .  .  Ships.     Four. 

Pp.  xii,  384;  cm.  16i 

The  usual  maps,  and  six  f.  p.  illustrations,  part  colored. 

Henry  Holt  &  Company.  Gulliver's  Voyages  to 
Lilliput  and  Brobdingnag.  Written  by  Jonathan 
Swift.     Illustrated  by  P.  A.  Staynes. 

Pp.  xiv,  238;  cm.  20.     (Fore-title.) 

Ornamental  half-title  to  each  part,  with  map  on  verso. 

First  issued  in  1912.     Cf.  supra,  London,  Sidgwick. 

Lovell  Brothers  &  Company.  Gulliver's  Travels. 
Illustrated. 

Pp.  xii,  13-310;  cm.  18. 

Vign.  on  title-page ;  wood  cuts  in  text.    Copy  examined 
had  preliminary  pages,  only  iii  to  viii. 

The  F.  M.  Lupton  Publishing  Company.  Trav- 
els ..  .  World.  Four.  Lemuel  .  .  .  Ships.  With 
copious  notes,  and  a  life  of  the  author,  by  W.  C. 
Taylor,  LL.D.,  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin. 

Pp.  5-333;  cm.  18. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  187 

McLoughlin  Brothers.  Gulliver's  Travels  into 
some  remote  regions  of  the  World.  By  Dean 
Swift.     With  Illustrations  by  T.  Morten. 

Pp.  ii,  158;  col'd  front.;  two  Parts;  cm.  23. 

J.  Slater.  Gulliver's  Travels  into  the  Kingdom 
of  Lilliput :  recording  his  strange  adventure  in  that 
remote  country.  Embellished  with  neat  engrav- 
ings on  wood. 

Pp.  36;  front.;  cm.  15. 

Vign.,  and  cuts  in  the  text.    Bound  with  other  stories. 

Sully  and  Kleinteich.  Gulliver's  Travels.  By 
Jonathan  Swift.  Abridged  by  W.  Dingwell  For- 
dyce.     (Printed  in  Great  Britain.) 

Pp.  64;  8  colored  mounted  illus.;  cm.  25i. 


BOSTON,  ETC. 


Ginn  and  Company.  Gulliver's  Travels.  A  Voy- 
age to  Lilliput  and  a  Voyage  to  Brobdingnag.  By 
Jonathan  Swift,  D.D.  (Lemuel  Gulliver).  First 
a  Surgeon  and  then  a  Captain  of  several  ships. 
Edited  by  Edward  K.  Robinson.  Illustrated  by 
Charles  Copeland.  [1914.]  Boston,  New  York, 
Chicago,  London. 

Pp.  vi,  256;  cm.  17§.    (Half-title  to  each  Part,  with  map 
on  verso.) 

Ginn  &  Company,.  Gulliver's  Travels.  I.  A 
Voyage  to  Lilliput.  II.  A  Voyage  to  Brobding- 
nag. By  Jonathan  Swift,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick 
[sic].  Edited  for  schools,  with  notes  and  a  sketch 
of  the  author's  life.  Boston,  New  York,  Chicago, 
London. 

Pp.    x,    162(4)  ;    cm.    17*.      (Copyright    1886,    "25.1"— 
"213.9.") 


188  GULLIVER'S  TRAVELS 

Houghton  Mifflin  Company.  Gulliver's  Travels. 
Part  I.  A  Voyage  to  Lilliput.  By  Jonathan  Swift, 
with  introductory  sketch  and  notes.  Boston,  New 
York,  Chicago. 

Pp.  102(2);    front,  map;    cm.  \7\.     (Copyright  1896.) 

(The  Riverside  Literature  Series.)  Contains  the  verses 
to  Quinbus  Flestrin.  (Part  II  printed  separately  in  a 
similar  manner?) 

Lee  and  Shepard  (Charles  T.  Dillingham,  N.  Y.). 
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"Gulliver's  Travels"  superimposed.  Original  paper  cover 
bears  the  series  name,  "Redpath's  books  for  the  camp 
fires."     B.  P.  L.     Copy  not  examined. 

CHICAGO 

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some  remote  regions  of  the  world.  By  Jonathan 
Swift,  D.D.    With  sixty  illustrations. 

Pp.  188(4);  colored  front;  cm.  16J.     (Half-title.) 
Only  two  Parts. 

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Four.  Complete  edition,  with  copious  notes  and  a 
life  of  the  author.  By  W.  C.  Taylor,  LL.D.  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin. 

Pp.  ii,  7-334;  cm.  18. 

No  illustrations.  Appendices,  to  Lilliput  and  Laputa. 
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BIBLIOGRAPHY  189 

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.  .  .  World.     By  Dean  Swift.     A  new  edition,  edit- 
ed for  young  readers  by  Edwin  O.  Chapman.  With 
more  than  250  illustrations. 
Pp.  176. 

Rand,  McNally  &  Company  (Chicago  and  New 
York).     Gulliver's  Travels.     By  Dean  Swift. 

Pp.  354(4)  ;   cm.  18. 

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York).  Gulliver's  Travels.  By  Jonathan  Swift. 
With  illustrations  by  Milo  Winter. 

Pp.  xii,  344;  cm.  23.     (Gen.  half-title,  and  half-title  to 
each  Part.) 

Copyrighted  1912. 

CINCINNATI 

U.  P.  James.  Travels  .  .  .  World.  Lemuel  .  .  . 
Ships.  By  Dean  Swift.  Embellished  with  wood 
cuts.     Cincinnati. 

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B.  P.  L.    Copy  not  examined. 

University  Press.  The  Sources  of  Gulliver's 
Travels.    Max  Poll  [&c]. 

Pp.  23 ;   cm.  221/,. 

This  pamphlet  it  undated.     It  contains  no  reference  to 
Collins's  work,  1893. 


FACSIMILES  OF  TITLES 


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Plate  I 
Portrait  of  Gulliver :  First  State 


l 

TRAVEL S 

INTO     SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WO  RL  D. 

In    Four  .PARTS. 

By  LEMUEL  GULKLlVERy 
Firft  a  Surgeon,   and  then  a  Cap- 
tain of  feveral  SHIPS. 

Vol.  I. 

L  0  NrD  0  N: 

Trinted  for  B e n j.  Motje,  at  the 

Middle  Temple-Gate  in  Fleet-ftreet. 

Mdccxxvi. 

! 

■     ' 

Plate  II 

First  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  I.     (Used  also  for 

Second  Edition.) 


T  RAVE  L  S 

INTO     SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WORLD. 

PARTI. 
A^Voyage  to  LILLITUT. 


L'O  K  T>  0  N: 

Printed  in  the  Year  M  DCC  XX  VI. 


Plate  III 

First  Edition.     Separate  Title  Page  to  Part  I.     (Used  also 

for  Second  Edition.) 


TRAVELS 

INTO  SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE. 

WORLD. 

By  Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver. 

PART     II. 

A  Voyage  to  BROBDINGNAG. 


L  O  NT)  O  N: 
Printed  in  the   Year,  MDCCXXVI. 


Plate  IV 

First  Edition.     Separate  Title  Page  to  Part  II.     (Used  also 

for  Second  Edition.) 


V 


y "  - 

1 


TRAVELS 

INTO   SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WORLD. 


By  Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver. 


PART    III. 

A    Voyage    to  Laputa,    Balnibarbi, 

Glubbdubdrib,     Luggnagg    and 
Japan. 

PART    IV. 

A  Voyage    to  the  Houyh  n  h  nms. 


LONDON: 

Printed  for  Benja  mi  n  Mottf,  at  the 
Mtddk-Templc-Gate.       M  DCOXXVI. 


Plate  V 
First   Edition.     General   Title   Page   to   Vol.    II.    Parts   III 

and  IV 


^C<;''<T/ 


TRAVELS 

INTO  SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WORLD. 


By  Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver. 


paIt  iv. 

A  Voyage  to  the  Houyhnhkms. 


L    0    N    D    0    N: 
Printed  in  the  Year,  >1  DCC  XXVL 


i 


Plate  VI 
First  Edition.     Separate  Title  Page  to  Part  IV 


• 

TRAVELS 

INTO    SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

.     O  F    T  H  E 

WOR  LD. 

IN    FOUR    PARTS. 

By  LEMUEL  GULLIVER, 

firft  a  Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain 
of  feveral   SHIPS. 

VOL.     I.    , 

LO  ND  0  N: 

Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at  the  Middle 

Temple-Gate   in  Fleet- itreet. 

M,DCC,XXVI. 

1 

" 

Plate  VII 
Third  Edition.    General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  I 


TRAVE  LS 

INTO    SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WORLD. 


By  Captain  Lemuel- Gulliver. 
VOL.  II. 

PART    III. 

A  Voyage  to  Laputa,  Balnibarbi, 
Glubbdubdribb,  Luggnagg,  and 
Japan.  *  *    , 

PART    IV. 
A  Voyage  to  the  Houyhnhnms. 


L  O  N  T>  O  N  : 

Printed  for  Benjamin  Motte,    at  the 

Middle-Temple-Gate.    M  dcc  xx  vi. 


Platf,  VIII 

Third  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  II.     (Used  also 

for  Second  Edition,  Type  B.) 


IJIll!' 

mil! 


II    '  •         .      '   '  *     .      *    '  <v  if"* 


ililiil 


Plate  IX 
Portrait  of  Gulliver :  Second  State 


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■'    ■    1  ■■■■  iMlIMMlIIl    II  I  I  IS 


Plate  X 

Portrait  of  Gulliver:  Third  State 


T  R  AVELS 

INTO   SEVERAL 

Remote    Nations 

O  F    T  H  E 

WORLD. 

By  Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver. 

PART    III. 

i 
A  Voyage  to  Laputa,    Balnibarbt, 

Glubbdubdrib,    Luggnagg,   and 
Japan. 

PART     IV. 

A  Vo  y  ag  e  to  the  Houyhnhnms. 


The  Second  Edition. 


L  O  N  T>  O  N: 

Printed  for  Benjamin  Motte,    at  the 
'    Middle-Temple -Gate.     M.d  cc.xx  v  i  . 


Plate  XI 

Second  Edition.     General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  II   (Tvpe  A), 

Parts  III  and  IV.     ("The  Second  Edition."/ 


>i*      .^tatAG  E  . 

in  tfc&meaneft  Habits  moil  of  them  tell- 
ing me  the^  died  in  Poverty  and  PhV 
grace,  and  the  reft  on  a.  Scaffold  or  a 
€|ibb|et»      ,  .._■--. 

V  .  •        .  .  v 

-  -36 .  ■  -  i  '  \  .  v  . . .  . .  o  •••>./■  •  .  , 
v  VA  M  O-  it  g  the  reft  there  was  one  Per- 
jfon  wbofe  |Cafe:  appeared  a  little  ngu- 
lajv  He  ha'd  a  Youtfi  about  eighteen 
Years  old  fta^iog  ^y  WsSde.  He  told- 
me  he  had  for-  many  Years  been  Com- 
mander  of  a  Ship^  and  in;  the  Sea  Fight 
at  JBtiw,  l^a4  ihe  good  Fortune  to 
break  through  the  Enemy's  great  line; 
pf  Battle,  fink,  three  o£.  their  Capital 
Ships,  and  take  a.  fourth^  which  was 
thefoleCaufe,  PjL^^^s^F^r^,  and 
of  the  Yiaorjs.that  enfuedj  that  .she, 
Youth  iian(£ng  ,bjf  himj  his- bnly  4k>n* 
^as  filled  in  the,  AJ&pn.  He  ajded,  that 
§ppn  the  Conscience:  .qffonie  Merit, 
this  War  being  at  an  en$,  hejttf^  to 
K#0f,  and  felici^ed  at  theyOtfuXt  olJu- 
guftus  tp  be  prefe^edtom:  greater  Sliip, 
whofe  Commander:  had  been  killed;  but 
frithptft  any  .regard  to  his  Pretenfions, 


n 

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it 


Plate:  XII 

First  Edition.     Page  114,  Vol.  II,  Part  III.     ("ngular"  for 

"singular.") 


ii4        ^VOYAGE 

in  the  meaner!  Habit,  moft  of  them  tell- 
ing me  they  died  in  Poverty  and  Dif. 
grace,  and  the  reft  on  a  Scaffold  or  a 
Gibbet. 

Among  the  reft  there  was  one  Per- 
fon  whofe  Cafe  appeared  a  little  fingu- 
lar.  He  had  a  •  Youth  about  eighteen 
Years  old  ftanding  by  his  fide.  He  told 
.me  he  had  for  many  Years  been  Com- 
mander of  a  Ship,  and  in  the  Sea  Fight 
at  ABiumy  had  the  good  Fortune  to 
break 'through  the  Enemy's  great  Line 
of  Battle,  fink  three'  of  their  Capital 
Ships,  and  take  a  fourth,  which  was 
the  fole  Caufe  of  <Antbony\  Flight,  and 
of  the  Victory  that  enfued ;  that  the 
Youth-  ftanding  by  him,  his  only  Son, 
was  killed  in  the  A&ion.  He  added,  that 
upon  the  Confidence  of  fome  Merit, 
this  War  being  at  an  end,  he  went  to 
Rome,  and  folicited  at  the  Court  of  Au- 
guflus  to  be  preferred  to  a  greater  Ship, 
whofe  Commander  had  been  killed  ;  but 
without  any  regard  to  his  Pretentions, 

16 


Plate  XIII 

Second  Edition    (Type  B).     Page   114,  Vol.   II,  Part   III. 

("singular.") 


T  RAVELS 

INTO    SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

W  O  R  L  D. 


la  Four  P  ARTS. 


By  LEMVEL  GVL  LIVER, 

Firft  a  Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain 
of  feveral  S  H  I  P  S. 


Tp  which  are  prefixtJ, 

Several  Copies  ofVERSES  Expla- 
planatory  and  Commendatory  ;  never  be- 
fore printed.  « 


Vol.    I. 


The  Second  Edition. 


L  -0    N   D    O   N: 

Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  at'  the  Middle 
Temple  Gate  in  Fleet-ftreet.  Mdccxxvii. 


Plate  XIV 

Fourth  (8vo)   Edition,  1727:  General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  I. 

("The  Second  Edition.") 


TRAVELS 

INTO     SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF    THE 

WORLD. 


By  Captain  LemuelGulliver. 


PART    III. 

A  Voyage  coLaputa,  Balnibarbi, 
Gl  ubbdubjj  r  i  b,.  Luggnagg   and 

J  A  PVA  N- 

PART     IV. 
A  Voyage  to  the  'Houyhnhnms. 


Vol.     II. 

—  \-  * r  ■      i-  ■       i  .    i    i   ■  ■  j     

The  Second  Edition,    Corrected. 

LONDON:, 

Printed  for  Benjamin  Motte,  at  the  Middle- 
Tewple-Gate.     MDCCXXV1I. 


1 


Plate  XV 

Fourth  (8vo)  Edition,  1727:  General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  II, 

Parts  III  and  IV.     ("The  Second  Edition,  Corrected.") 


TRAVELS 


INTO   SEVERAL 

Remote  Nations 

OF   THE 

WORL  D. 

IN    FOUR    PARTS. 

By  LEMUEL  GULLIVER, 

firft   a  Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain 

of  feveral  SHIPS. 

VOL.     I. 


L  O.N  D  O  N: 

Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,    at  the   Middle 
Temple-Gate  in  FJeec-ftreec. 
M,  DCC,  XXVII. 


Plate  XVI 
Fourth  Edition  (24mo),  1727:  General  Title  Page  to  Vol.  I 


rtLAPUXA,  &c       109 

ferent  Ages,  the  yourigeft  not  above  two 
hundred  Years  old,  who  were  brought 
me  at  feveral  times  by  fome  of  my 
Friends-,  but  although  they  were  told 
that  I  was  a  great  Traveller,  and  had 
leen  all  the  World,  they  had  not  the  leaft 
Curiofity  to  ask  me  a  Queftion  ;  only  dc- 
fired  I  would  give  them  Slumskuda'sk,  or 
a  Token  of  Remembrance,  which  is  a 
modeft  way  of  begging,  to  avoid  the  Law 
that  ftr idly  forbids  it  *,  becaufe  they  are 
provided  for  by  the  Publick,  although, 
indeed,  with  a  very  fcanty  Allowance. 

They  arc  deprived  and  hated  by  all 
ibrt  of  People :  when  one  of  them  js 
born,  it  is  reckoned  ominous,  and  their 
Birth  is  recorded  very  particularly  ^  Jo 
that  you  may  know  their  Age  by  con- 
fiilting  the  Regiftry,  which,  however, 
hath  not  been  kept  above  a  thoufand 
Years  paft,  or  at  leaft  hath  been  deftroy- 
ed  by  Time  or.publickDifturbanc.es.  But 
the  ufaai  way  of  computing  how  old  they 
are,  is  by  asking  them  what  Kings  or 
great  Perlbns  they  can  remember,  and- 
then  confiilting  Hiiilory  5  for  infallibly  the 
laft  Prince,  in  their  Mind,  did  not  begin 
his  Reign  after  they  were  fourlcore  Years 
old. 

They  were  the  moft  mortifying  Sight 
I  ever  beheld,   and  the  Women  more 

horribly 


Plate  XVII 
Fourth  Edition  (24mo),  1727:  Page  109,  Vol.  II,  Part  III 


VOLUME    IIL 


Of  the  Author's 


works. 

CO  NT  A  I  N  I  NG, 

TRAVELS 


INTO 

Remote  Nations 

In  Four  Parts,  viz. 


SEVERAL 

of  the  WORLD. 


L  A  Voyage  to  Lil- 
xiput, 

II.  A  Voyage  to  Brob- 

DINGNAG. 

I 

III.  A  Voyage  to  La- 


puta,  Balnibarbi, 
Luggnagg,Glueb- 
dubdrib  and  Japan* 

IV.  A  Voyage  to  the 
Country  of  the 

HOUYHNHNMS, 


By  LEMUEL  GULLIVER,  firft  a  Surgeon^ 
and  then  a  Captain  of  feveral  Ships. 


Valgus  abhor r  et  ab  his. 


Retroqi 


Jn  this  Impreflion  feveral  Errors  in  the  Lwdm  and  Dublin*. 
Editions  are  corrected. 


DUBLIN: 

Printed  by  and  for  George  Faulkner,  Printed 
and  Bookfeller,  in  EJfc%-Sfrtet,  opposite  to  th$ 
"«<     M  pet  xxxv. 


Plate  XVIII 
Dublin  Edition  (8vo  Faulkner),  1735:  Title  Page 


Plate  XIX 
Dublin  Edition  (8vo  Faulkner),  1735:  Portrait  of.  Gulliver 


TRAVELS 

INTO     5  E  V  E  R  A  L 

Remote  Nations 

O  F    T  H  E 

WORLD- 


In  Four   PARTS. 


By  LEMUEL  GULLIVERy 
Firft  a  Surgeon,  and  then  a  Captain 
of  fevcral  SHIPS. 


Vol.    I. 


In  this  Imprejfion^  fevcral  Errors  in  the 
London  Edition  are  CorreRed. 


DUBLIN: 

Printed  by  and  for  J.Hvd  e,  Book- 
feller  in  Dame's  Street,  iji6. 


Plate  XX 
Dublin  Edition  (Cm.  16^,  Hyde),  1726:  Title  Page 


TRAVELS 

INTO    SEVERAL 

Remote    Nations 

O  F    T  H  E 

WORLD. 

By  Capt.  LemuelGuliveiu 

Faithfully  Abridged, 

L    O    N  D    0    AT 


Printed  for  J.  Stone,  againfc  Bedford  Ron*,  and 
R.  King,  at  the  'Prince's- Arms  in  St.  Tatti's 
Church-Yard.    MDCC  XXVII, 


Plate  XXI 
London  Edition  (Cm.  16,  Stone),  1727:  Title  Page 


VOYAGES 

D     E 

GULLIVER. 

TOME     PREMIER. 
Seconde  Edition, 


A  PARIS,  rue  S.Jacques. 

f G a br i e l   Martin,   vis-a-vis 
la  rue  du  Platre  ,  a  l'Etoile. 
ChczJ   HTJp?LITE-L0UIS    GUERIN, 
^      ai.Thonusd'Aquin,  vis-a-vis  S.  Yves^ 
I  Et  Qiuy  des  Auguftins  , 

.  Dans la  boutique  de  la  V.  coustelier  . 
^.      chezjACQUESGuERlN. 

M.     DCC.    XXVII. 

AVEC   VRiriLEGE    DU   KQr.      ' 


Plate  XXII 
Paris  Edition  (Cm.  14,  Martin),  1727:  Title  Page 


REISBESCHRYVING 

NA    VERSCHEYDE    AFGELEGENE 
•NATIEN  IN  DE  WERELD, 

R     E     Y     S        N     A 

LILLIPUL 

DOOR, 

LEMUEL    GULLIVER 

E  E  K  S  T  E    D  E   E  L. 


iwjww 


IN   >sG  RAFENHAGE 
by  ALBERTS  &  VANPER  KLOOTV 

MDCCXXVII. 


Plate  XXIII 
Hague  Edition  (Cm.  15,  Alberts),  1727:  Title  Page 


VOYAGES 

DU    CAPITAINE 

LEMUEL  GULLIVER, 

E  N 

DIVER$  PAYS 

ELOIGNEZ. 

TOME    PREMIER. 
Premiere  Partie. 

Contenant  Ie  Voyage  de  Lilliput. 


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it  .Vchradrr.™-j2 


ALA    HA  TE, 
Chcfc  P.  GOSSE   &  J.   NEAULME. 
MDCCXXV1L 


Plate  XXIV 
Hague  Edition  (Cm.  16,  Gosse),  1727:  Title  Page 


VOYAGES 

D  E 

GULLIVER. 

TOME    PREMIER. 

Second e  Edition  ,   revue  &  cor'rlgfe* 


A    MILDENDO, 
Chez     les     Freies     P  I   G  M  E  O  S, 

qAvcc  Privilege  de  V  Emperw  de  LUl'ipm. 
17*7* 


Plate  XXV 

"Mildendo"  Edition  (Cm.  \S]/2,  "Pigmeos"),  1727 

Title  Paere 


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